

MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS. 



103 



No. of 



No. of 

 Object. 



xiii. b. 



Br. 248. 



Br. 249. 



Br. 250. 



xiii. b. 



Br. 251. 



Locality, &c. 



square tang being filled with oxidized 

 remains of the handle, apparently 'of wood. 

 The outside of the bands is ornamented 

 with two or three pairs of shallow lines 

 round them. " This may possibly be 

 Celtic, of the early Iron Age" (Canon 

 Greenwell). 



Somerleigh Court Garden, Dorchester. 



Seven little ornaments, or fragments of 

 ornaments, of doubtful use. No. 3 from 

 the top may be the pendant of an earring. 



Somerleigh. 



A pair of compasses, 3in. long. They 

 are very well made and quite perfect. 



Somerleigh. 



A slender ointment spoon, sin. long. It 

 consists of a thin rod, at one end of which 

 is a narrow spoon-bowl, iin. long and 

 fin. wide. At the junction with the bowl 

 the rod is slightly moulded. At the other 

 end the rod ends in an egg-shaped piece, 

 in. long and 3-1 6th inch thick. Perhaps 

 this was wrapped in wool, and dipped in 

 the ointment, which was thus applied to a 

 sore or wound. (See a similar end on an 

 aurist's instrument, Br. 206.) 



Somerleigh. 



A little hammer-head, zin. long. It is 

 not clear whether this small tool was cast 

 or hammered and filed into shape. Its 

 hammer surface is roughly round, fin. 

 across. Above it comes a rather clumsily- 

 made groove all round. Then for in. it 



How procured. 



Given by Sir 

 E. Edgcumbe. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



