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another of no more than 15. The characteristic leaf-shape, as seen in prints in 

 Evans' " Bronze Implements," p. 381, &c., is not much developed in this sword. 

 No. 4. A good socket celt. This is a noteworthy one as being shorter propor- 

 tioned than any in the Dorset Museum. This may be the result of much 

 grinding. No. 5. A gold or heavily-gilt bronze finger ring. No. 6. A very 

 good socket gouge. No. 9. A handle or hilt of a tanged sword. This hilt, and 

 also the differently -formed one of No. 1, confirm the belief that the Bronze Age 

 people were small-handed. This is, however, disputed by Sir J. Evans. 

 Nos. 10, 11. Pieces of what the writer doubtfully thought to be a fitting of some 

 sort for a car. It is more to the point that Mr. Read, of the British Museum, is 

 understood to confirm this opinion. Nos. 12, 13. These may be fittings for 

 harness. Nos. 10, 11, 12, and 13 are very interesting. No. 15. This bronze 

 crook is a puzzle. No explanation of it is attempted by the writer. There 

 seem to be a possibility or two, but no probability. These are meagre notes on 

 what must be set down as one of the most noteworthy bronze hoards that have 

 come to light in the south of England for a long time. It is a find, too, that 

 may very possibly be added to as the Sleight flints are more and more carted 

 away. But the writer would not indulge in such hopes, but end, as he began, by 

 a warmly grateful acknowledgment of the extraordinary advantage bestowed on 

 the Dorset Field Club and the Dorset Museum by Miss Weld in lending these 

 intensely interesting relics of the Dorset men of the dim far-off Bronze Age. 



The HON. SEC. observed that certain articles appeared to be 

 remains of a bronze chariot. Two such finds had been made in 

 Dorset before one at Hamden Hill and the other at Belbury 

 Camp, near Higher Lytchett. 



BY THE HON. SEC. : 



A photograph of a new fossil scorpion lately found in the coal measures of 

 Lancashire and, for comparison, a specimen of the modern scorpion that infests 

 houses in Italy. What looked like a tail was really a tail- like prolongation of 

 the segmented abdomen, armed at its end with a hooked claw perforated for the 

 transmission of poison. The antennae are represented by large arm-like 

 prehensile organs with powerful chelae, or nippers. To all appearance, the 

 animal had changed but little since the carboniferous epoch. 



BY THE REV. S. E. V. FILLETTL : 



Some specimens of pattens and clogs, principally from Somerset. These 

 were afterwards presented to the County Museum. 



The following papers were then read : 



i. By the Rev. S. E. V. Filleul, on "Dorchester Gaol and 

 those who died in it after the Monmouth Rebellion." The 

 paper will be found in the book. 



