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piece of Kimmeridge shale, which I conceive to be part of 

 another wheel. I found also one piece of coal-money, of the 

 three-holed type. An elegant bowl of Kimmeridge shale was 

 found by Mr. Medhurst in 1846 at Jordan Hill, lying near 

 a human skeleton. In the County Museum there is an un- 

 finished circular piece of Kimmeridge shale centred for the 

 lathe, also a part of an undetached ring ; it had been pro- 

 bably damaged in the lathe and thrown aside. Mr. Austen 

 opened a tumulus near St. Alban's Head in the year 1850, in 

 which were fragments of coarse pottery, pieces of Kimmeridge 

 shale, a piece of coal-money, an armlet of shale, and a small 

 sherd of the so-called Samian ware ; also five Roman coins 

 Trajan, Marcus Aurelius, Gallienus, Victorinus, and Tetricus. 

 In another tumulus at Afflington, near Corfe Castle, Mr. Austen 

 found several pieces of Koman pottery, a portion of a metal clasp, 

 a piece of iron, and several pieces of Kimmeridge shale. In 

 1857 he examined a large barrow on Knowle Hill, west of 

 Corfe Castle, in the centre of which was a kistvein of from 

 eight to nine feet in diameter and nine and a-half feet in 

 depth ; at the bottom was a skeleton with lumps of chalk 

 carefully packed over it and covered with earth containing 

 pieces of burnt wood about two feet in thickness, and thinly 

 coated over with clay. The body was in a crouching position, 

 with it were two pieces of stag-horn, two fragments of British 

 pottery, and a piece of Kimmeridge shale. General Pitt-Rivers 

 in his important and thorough excavations at Woodcuts found 

 several pieces of coal-money of the three-holed type ; and 

 while trenching the ground at the north-west quarter of the 

 village he fell in with two carved handles of two bowls, 

 spindle-whorls, beads, fragments of bracelets, ornamented rings 

 turned from cores, and a cup 1.10 inch in diameter and 0.53 inch 

 high, all of Kimmeridge shale. There were also several pieces of 

 rough, un worked shale which were probably brought for manipula- 

 tion. Of the 59 objects of Kimmeridge shale, including coal-money, 

 of these General Pitt-Rivers says 32 were found in the north-west 



