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purely domestic character. I have been informed by M. Dechelette, 

 Conservateur du Musee, Rouan, that a somewhat similar spiral decoration 

 is found on some Gaulish pottery at Bibracte, but here the pattern is 

 painted on and not incised. We have also pieces of another bowl-shaped 

 vessel which was ornamented with a pattern of triangles and lozenges 

 filled with incised lines divided by two parallel lines round the vessel. 

 Mr. Evans considers this a descendant of the class of pottery he obtained 

 from Aylesford ; the incised bands round it which enclose the triangles 

 and lozenges he takes as a modification of the cordons with which the 

 Aylesford pottery is decorated. Another plain vessel possesses loops for 

 suspension, and many of the fragments of the large ones are looped ; all the 

 plain ware is of coarser body than the ornamental fragments. The bones 

 have already been mentioned, and there are remains of six human skulls. 

 Of these three were figured, in vol. iii. of the late Gen. Pitt-Rivers' fine 

 work on the excavations in Dorset and Wilts. One has three holes drilled 

 in it, evidently after death. Can we not imagine this skull hanging out- 

 side the wattle hut of one of the camp dwellers .? Dr. Garson describes 

 it as that of an adult male ; the third one he considers to be that of a 

 young male with high and broad forehead and similar in type to the one 

 with the holes. General Pitt-Rivers says of them, ' They may no doubt 

 be regarded as specimens of Late Celtic crania.' For weaving purposes 

 there are several combs formed of sections of bone. Like combs have been 

 found at Glastonbury, at Mount Cabourn and at the large British camp 

 of Worlebury above Weston-super-Mare. There are several pieces of red 

 deer horn showing traces of the saw, several hollow cylinders of bone, 

 one of which is ornamented with a series of small circles resembling a 

 modern apple scoop. Of glass there are five rings and a blue glass bead 

 with white knobs which was lost before the collection was housed in the 

 museum, but since its location there another blue glass bead obtained 

 from the camp has been secured from a neighbouring village. This one 

 has white amulets engraved on it. Fragments of similar beads were found 

 at Glastonbury, and others of the same period have been found in several 

 parts of England. 



What does this collection tell us ? It is evident that the occupiers 

 of the camp were not of the Neolithic age nor were they of the Bronze 

 period, as we have a series of weapons and implements of iron and not 

 of bronze, the only bronze articles found being for ornamental purposes. 

 Are they Roman or Romano-British ? No ; for if so we should surely 

 have found some trace of Roman influence. Adjoining the cases in 

 the Northampton Museum in which the remains from Hunsbury are 

 displayed are cases containing the Romano-British articles from the 

 parish of Duston, discovered within a mile and a half of Hunsbury. If 

 you take any article from the camp and compare it with one of a like 

 use from Duston, the difference will be seen at once. If any one wishes 

 still further to compare the shape and make of the iron tools, imple- 

 ments and weapons of the ancient Britons with those of the Romans, 

 let him go down to Glastonbury and inspect in the museum there the 



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