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and a boar's tusk perforated, a spear-head of stone, curiously 

 serrated. A broken stone celt was found by Sir R. C. Hoare at 

 Woodyates (Turn. 23, N.) ; in Purbeck (S.) a whetstone, perforated 

 at one end. We must not omit to mention the discovery in a 

 Tumulus on the Ridgeway at Came (S., No. 12) of two large blocks 

 of stone which lay on the top, each having on the underside three 

 concentric circles, deeply incised. Such stones are supposed to 

 have held some position in the religious creed of the Keltic race, 

 This sculpturing has been observed on rocks in England, Scotland. 

 and in India, and has received much attention from travellers and 

 archaeologists.* 



4. Articles of bone were more frequently found, but were not of 

 much note, excepting a spear-head (Monkton, near Dorchester, No. 

 62, S.) ; an arrow head, and several tweezers, beads, and pins (N.) 



5. We now come to that beautiful fossil production, amber, 

 which seems to have been in great request for the purpose of 

 personal ornament. Beads of this material were found by Sir K. 

 C. Hoare in several Tumuli at Woodyates (N.) In a cist within 

 one of the low mounds in a disc barrow he found a hundred of 

 these beads, also pieces of amber and other relics with burned 

 bones. In a barrow at Bloxworth (Turn. 14, C.) an urn contained 

 eight amber beads amongst the burned bones and ashes ; and the 

 Culliford Tree Tumulus (S., No. 22), explored by Captain Dawson 

 Darner, contained skeletons, placed in the extended form, and at 

 the neck of one of them were the remains of an amber necklace, 

 with traces of thin gold plate. 



6. GLASS BEADS. Such were found along with those of amber 

 in Tumuli No. 19 and 22 of the N. district; following the rule of 

 greater frequency of ornamental objects in the N. than in the other 

 districts. In a large Tumulus of the Central district at Shapwick 



* (Vide "Archaic Sculpturings of Cups, Circles, &c., upon stones and 

 rocks in Scotland, England, and other Countries." By Sir J. Y. Simpson, 

 Bart., F.S.A., Edinb., 1871) ; also "Sculptured concentric Circles on rocks 

 in Northumberland" (Green well) ; and "Archaic Sculpturings in India," 

 by H. Rivett Carnac. (" Notes and Queries," 5 S., vii., 41, 1877). 



