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north-west, lay an iron buckle, composed of two rings 

 tied together by a flap, through which passed a tongue 

 of metal (fig. 14). Then came a fragment of a horse- 

 shoe (fig. 15), furnished with a flat oblong-headed nail 

 (fig. 16); afterwards the blade of an iron knife which 

 had lost its point, and was yet 5 inches long (fig. 17). 



fig. 14 





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fig- 15 



fig. 16 



fig. 17 



The numerous bits of pottery collected from among the 

 cinders and the charcoal were of grey clay full of silice- 

 ous particles, but better tempered and more solid than 

 Celtic pottery in general. Some fragments had acquired, 

 from prolonged baking, the hardness of stoneware ; 

 others, more friable, were covered with a black varnish 

 and very salient mouldings. The vases to which these 

 belonged appeared to have been broken, and their pieces 

 scattered on the ground designedly, for the scraps 

 gathered over a wide surface, and which have been put 



