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shafts at Maumbury, and it may have been displaced from the 

 top of one of them about the time it became deposited where 

 now found. On the other hand there is no reason why it should 

 not be of Roman date, such implements having been previously 

 discovered with Roman remains (Dorchester, Woodyates, * &c.). 



OBJECTS FOUND AT MAUMBURY RINGS, 1909. 



77. Bronze Seal-box. 91. Carnelian Bead. 



98. Penannular Brooch of Bronze. 

 157. " Second Brass " Coin of Hadrian. 



(All full size.} 



The brooch has an arched pin, and the terminals are doubled 

 back and ribbed in a manner common in Dorset and the south- 

 west. It was found on the solid chalk slope ; close to it were 

 fragments of Romano-British pottery, a number of flint flakes, 

 burnt flints, &c. Similar brooches f of the Roman period 



* " Excavations in Cranborne Chase," III.. 135. 



t This type of brooch, together with its' distribution, will be dealt with by the 

 writer in the forthcoming monograph on the Glastoubury Lake Village. 



