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in time, are formed into open worked tunegars, as they are 
termed; and lastly, they are ricked, in order to be carted to 
the different markets. A curious phenomenon, sometimes, 
oceurs in the turbaries. The delver, at the depth of eight, 
nine, and sometimes even ten feet, and when within a foot 
or two of the clay, on which the peat rests, is suddenly 
lifted to the mouth of the pit, and steps off without 
diffieulty or danger. A very old and experienced workman 
informed me “he had had several wind and water rides in 
his time, and that when wind caused the platform to rise, 
it went steadily up, and at the top he only had to pass his 
seythe through the mass, when the wind passed oft, with a 
sound much like the drone of the bagpipe, and he gradually 
descended to the bottom, and resumed his work. When 
water was the cause, the ascent was more rapid, attended 
by a violent rocking motion, and the pit became useless.” 
Our young bearer felt much fatigued at the completion 
of what was his first and last day’s work of that descrip- 
tion ; he was, however, well repaid; for whilst speaking to 
the delver, he espied in one corner at the bottom of the 
pit, what he imagined to be a log of black wood, and 
ordered it to be carefully removed. To his great delight, it 
proved to be a small square box, scooped in rather an oval 
shape within, and containing what I consider to be the 
most eurious collection of British antiquities ever discov- 
ered in the turbaries of Somerset. The cist was unfortu- 
nately made of maple, and soon fell to dust; had it been of 
oak, or yew, it would have remained an interesting relic for 
ages yet to come. I will now endeavour to describe its 
contents : 
A knife unfinished, as it came from the mould, with 
the rough edge on. Fig. 1: 
One which had been much used : 
