Notes on Food-Vessels from Oldbury Eill. 291 



Three metacarpi of sheep a little larger than St. Kilda ram. 



Two metacarpi of youngr sheep (small). 



Two metacarpi of young sheep— larger and stouter animal than St, Hilda. 



One radius of small eheep. 



One fragment of tibia of small sheep. 



Goat. Two horns. 



Roe Deer. Horn. 



Red Deer ? Fragment of tine. 



The Human bones included tibia, pelvis, fibula, radiu«, clavicle, four 08 

 calces, and four astragali. Only the left tibia could be measured ; its 

 length was 360 millimetres. 



By W. CUNNINGTON, F.G.S. 



^N June, 1890, the Rev. W. C. Plenderleath was informed 

 1^ that the flint-diggers on Oldbury Hill had found some 

 aucieut British remains. On reaching the spot he was fortunate iu 

 securing a perfect food-vessel, with its contents ; and, by dint of much 

 searching, he obtained a quantity of fragments of two other similar 

 vessels. These, with three " loom-weights " (described below) and 

 a considerable quantity of bones of sheep, deer, ox, and hog (but 

 no human bones) were found in a pit some 6ft. below the surface, 

 just within the ramparts of Oldbury Camp, and about 1 00yds. south 

 of the monument. The surface of the turf at this spot was quite 

 smooth, with nothing to show that a pit-dwelling existed below, but 

 the finding of the articles just mentioned, in a pit of such a depth, 

 sufficiently proves that it was one of the ancient habitations which 

 abound within the camp— some of which have been opened and 



