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crucibles found in the village; and he thinks they were probably made from material 
procured from the fire-clay and gritty gannister beds of the Bristol coalfield. 
Baked Clay. (D.) 
75. Small globular bead of baked clay of a light reddish-brown colour; roughly 
made; ext. diam. 7:2 mm. ; thickness 6 mm.; diam. of hole about 28mm. Mound 84. 
76. Very roughly made globular bead of a reddish-brown colour; ext. diam. 
10 mm.; average thickness 8°5 mm.; diam. of hole38mm. Mound 84, 
Baked clay beads have not previously been found in the village. 
A few pieces of wattle-marked clay were found in Mound 75, 8.5. quarter. 
One fusiform sling-bullet. Mound 75. 
Piece of baked clay showing clear impressions of skin-marks of the fingers. 
A large complete triangular loom-weight with sides practically equilateral was 
found in Mound 66; the corners are rounded, the faces flat; thickness averages 
32 inches: it is perforated across each corner for suspension. 
Bronze Objects. (E.) 
57. Small, gracefully formed fibula, found damaged, but now almost completely 
restored ; of slender make and of early La Téne type, composed of a continuous 
piece of wire, nowhere exceeding 1°5 mm. in thickness. The pin and bow are 
perfect, but the spring and retroflected end of the brooch have been broken ; the coil 
appears to have completed four and a half turns on either side of the head of the 
bow, the two sides being connected by the wire running along and almost touching 
the back of the coil. The catch-plate and the tail were absolutely continuous in 
the perfect brooch, the retroflected end being bent back to touch the summit of the 
bow and secured to it by means of a rounded and moulded collar 2°9 mm. in diam. 
Length from tip of pin to back of spring 39°5 mm. Mound 75. This is not only one 
of the smallest fibula found in the village, but is probably the oldest in type, with 
the exception of E173, found in 1898, which may antedate it slightly. 
269. Small hook, perhaps the fastening of a belt; length 14:3 mm.; max. width 
75 mm.; ornamented by a slightly incised line following the sides of the outer 
face. Mound 75. 
270. The greater part of a small spiral finger-ring, the ends tapering toa blunted 
point; found in seven pieces; composed of a continuous strand of flat wire 
measuring 1‘7 mm. by 0°77 mm. Mound 84. It is similar in type to E 127, found 
near Mound 11 in 1896. 
271. Two small lumps of bronze. Mound 75. 
272. Complete spiral finger-ring, composed of finer wire than any other ring from 
the village; the material completes about 23 turns, and is of oblong section; 
int. diam. about 14mm. Mound 75. Of the same type as the ring E 88 found in 
1895. <A precisely similar ring was found in a crannog at Lochlee, Tarbolton, 
Ayrshire, and is figured in Munro’s ‘ Scottish Lake Dwellings,’ p. 132. 
273. Piece of thick sheet bronze; length 81 mm.; max. thickness 2°77 mm.; 
flat, smooth faces, The straighter edge shows evidence of having been partly cut 
through, perhaps with a hammer and chisel, and then bent back and broken off. 
Mound 75. 
274. One-half of the ring of a penannular brooch, the ext. diam. having originally 
been 29 mm.; the pin is deficient. In section the ring is plano-convex, the convex 
surface being ornamented by a continuous row of transverse incisions. One of the 
terminals remains ; itis slightly expanded, and measures 3:7 mm. in width. Mound 75. 
A ring-brooch ornamented in a similar manner was found in a crannog at Buston, 
near Kilmaurs (see Munro’s ‘Scottish Lake Dwellings,’ p. 227). 
Flint. (F.) 
378. Scraper with chipped and bevelled edge; length 36:5 mm. Trenching E. of 
Mound 75. 
Flint flakes were found as follows: Three in Mound 13 (including one with 
secondary chipping) ; one in Mound 66; one W. of Mound 66; five in Mound 75; 
one in Mound 81; one with secondary chipping in Mound 85; and two in Mound 89. 
Piece of burnt flint in Mound 66 ; another piece in Mound 75; and a third piece 
in the trenching to the 8. of Mound 75. 
