ENGLISH SPECIMENS. 



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third class is from an excavation in London, and is de- 

 scribed by C. Roach Smith. ' It differs but little from 

 the one found in the Roman camp at Dalheim, and is six 

 inches in length (fig, 131). 



The British Mu- 

 seum contains six of 

 these mysterious in- 

 struments, one of them 

 more curious than any 

 yet discovered. It has 

 only one real lateral fig. 131 



clip, the usual two being quite in front, where they are 

 clumsily united to form a projecting hook. The sole 

 is very narrow, and much oxidized on the ground sur- 

 face, and the ordinary hook-like termination at the end 

 is present (fig. 132). 



The others be- 

 long to the three 

 classes ; one of the 

 first has the side clips 

 long and thin, and 

 looking as if the 

 hooks had been worn ^^- '3^ 



or rusted off, and the sole had been repaired by welding 

 on a thin and narrow strip of iron in shape somewhat 

 like a horse-shoe. The actual sole is six inches long, 

 but the total length is six and three-quarters inches. The 

 width across at the clips is four and three-quarters inches. 



The others are somewhat different in length and 



' Catalogue of the Museum of Loudon Antiquities, p. J J, 1854. 

 Collectanea Antiqua, vol. iii. p. 128. 



