EARLY MAN 



service to any one who undertakes the business of a thorough examina- 

 tion of Prehistoric Worcestershire. 



The finds of Prehistoric implements and weapons that have been 

 recorded are here grouped under the locaHties in which they have been 

 found. No attempt is made to distinguish between the ages NeoHthic, 

 Bronze and Iron to which the articles belong. The localities are divided 

 into four groups : — 

 (a) Avon Valley. 

 (^) Severn Valley. 

 (c) Teme Valley. 

 (J) Mid-Worcestershire. 

 (a) Avon Valley. 



i. Bevington Waste. A rough stone axe was found here by a 

 workman and placed on a rockery in his garden, from whence it 

 was obtained by the late Canon Winington Ingram. It is now in 

 the Victoria Museum, Worcester. 



ii. Harvington. A bronze celt, socketed, ringed and reeded, 

 evidently cast in a mould consisting of two halves, for the mark 

 where the two parts met is very clearly shown on the implement, 

 was found in a deep watery ditch between Harvington and Salford, 

 this ditch forms the boundary between the counties of Worcester 

 and Warwick. It has a total length of 4I inches and was in 

 the possession of the late Mr. E. Bomford of Spring Hill, Flad- 

 bury. 



iii. Church Lench. A bronze palstave found at Church Lench 

 forms part of the Winington Ingram collection in the 'Victoria 

 Museum, Worcester. 



iv. Offenham. A celt of black stone was dug up in a ditch in 

 this parish and is now in the possession of the Rev. F. 8. Taylor. 

 It is 3 inches in length, 2 inches in width at one end, i| inches at 

 the other, and has been sharpened at both ends. 



v. Aldington. A rectangular piece of chlorite slate 5I inches 

 long, 1 1 inches broad, and \ of an inch thick, slightly convex on 

 one surface and with a corresponding concavity on the other was 

 found in a gravel pit at Aldington. It has four holes through 

 it, one at each corner, just low enough on the convex face for a 

 small cord to pass through it. The hole is countersunk on the 

 concave face. This implement has been described as a bracer 

 (Evans, p. 381 ; Wilts Arch. Mag., vol. x. (1867), pi. vi.). 



vi. Evesham. A bronze palstave found near Evesham, now in 

 the possession of Mr. R. F. Tomes of Littleton. 



vii. Sedgeberrow. In deepening the channel of the brook at 

 this place the sharpened half of a basalt celt was found, together 

 with the portion of another (May's History of Evesham, ed. 2, p. 

 365 ; Allies, Antiquities, p. 85). 



viii. At the same time, about 1827, and in the same place, 

 while deepening the brook two oval-shaped spearheads of bronze of 

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