BRACELETS, ETC. 



6 9 



No. of 

 Case. 



No. of 

 Object. 



xiii.*. 



Br. 68. 

 Br. 69. 



xiii. b. 

 xiii. b. 



xiii.*. 



Br. 70. 

 Br. 10a. 



Br. 71. 



Locality, &c. 



Fifehead Neville. 



Two very slightly made bracelets. They 

 are penannular, but look as if the circle 

 may have been broken accidentally. Their 

 ornament is a kind of milling on the outer 

 edge. 



Fordington. 



Two halves of a slender torque bracelet. 



Roman Well, Winterborne Kingston. 



An imperfect and much bent torque 

 bracelet. 



Albert Road, Fordington, Dorchester. 



An expanding femoral, if a new name 

 may be used. This specimen is suspected 

 of being unique in regard to its use, 

 namely, to be worn above the knee. It 

 was found in 1896, by Mr.- Bull, foreman of 

 the Borough Work, in digging a trench for 

 a sewer. It was found tightly clasping a 

 full sized human femur. In getting it off, 

 it was expanded to its present diameter, 

 4in., and in doing this, it seems to have 

 been strained, so as to lose its spring. A 

 ring of the same size will not go over even 

 a small man's knee. But one of the size of 

 this specimen, if fully expanded, slips on 

 with the utmost ease. This remarkable 

 ornament consists of a rod of bronze about 

 in. thick, tapered a good deal at the ends. 

 Each end is twisted neatly round the rod, 

 so loosely as to move easily on it. When 

 not in use, the ring would contract, judg- 

 ing by the position in which it was found. 



How procured. 



Given by 

 C. Connop, Esq. 



Given by the 

 Eev. H. Moule. 



Given by 

 J. C. Mansel- 

 Pleydell, Esq. 



Lent by 

 G.J. Hunt, Esq. 



