416 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 



405. Short, stout needle, made apparently from bird bone ; length 485 mm. The 

 head is roughly oval and flat, and 7"2 mm. in max. width ; the eye is of an irregular 

 oval form, 4 mm. long. Mound 74. 



406. Piece of highly polished bone broken at one end ; length 52-7 mm. On one 

 side, near tlie complete end, is a perforation of elongated oval form (length 10 mm.), 

 slightly pinched in at the middle. Mound 74. 



407. Portion of the shaft of a tibia of horse (?), savsrn transversely at one end. 

 Mound 75. It may be part of one of the objects described under B 382 in last 

 year's report. 



Distinct knife-cuts on five portions of rib-bones were found this year (three in 

 Mound 74, one in Mound 76, and one in Mound 83). 



A smaller proportion of bone objects was found this year than usual. 



Crucibles. (C.) 



20. One corner of a triangular hand-made, grey crucible. A small piece of 

 bronze was found within a foot of it. Mound 76. 



27. A similar piece to the last, with a little bronze adhering to the interior 

 surface. Mound 76. 



28. Portion of a thick crucible (max. thickness 20 mm.) with bronze adhering to 

 the inner surface. Mound 74. 



29. Fragment of the base of a crucible. Mound 74. 



Baked Clay. (D.) 



72. Small piece of baked clay with three arms ; perhaps a toy, or a ' stilt ' used 

 in the process of firing pottery. Mound 68. 



73. Smooth, semi-globular piece of baked clay, the flat side being scored with 

 slight incisions ; diam. 33'5 mm. Mound 83. 



74. Disc of baked clay, 245 mm. in diam., of bi-convex section, max. thickness 

 11 mm. It is too small for an unfinished spindlewhorl ; it may have been intended 

 for use in a game, or as a counter. N.N.W. of Mound 74. 



SUng-huUets. — One in Mound 67, one Mound 73, three Mound 74, three Mound 76, 

 and one of small size in trenching S.E. of Mound 83. 



Lpflm-wnglits. — Triangular loom-weight and portions of others in Mound 73. 



Bronze Objects. (E.) 



24.3. Rivet-head, diam. 15 mm. Mound 74,11902. • (Figured'in 'Proc.'Som. Arch. 

 Soc.,' vol. xlviii. pt. 2, pi. iii. fig. 2.) 



244. Small fibula, length 34 mm., with sgring of coiled wire l'3mm. thick. Like 

 other fibulfe of this class, it has been formed from one piece of metal, with the 

 exception of the axis, which passes through the cylindrical space enclosed by the 

 coils. The spring, beginning from the bow, makes five twists outwards on one side, 

 then arches over the back of the coil and completes five turns inwards. The summit 

 of the bow is of circular section (diam. 4-3 mm.). The catch-plate is not perforated 

 in this example, and it is somewhat clumsy in proportion to its total length. The 

 flat face of the catch-plate is decorated merely by an oblique incised line, which 

 joins, on the bow of the fibula, two transverse grooves— an ornamental survival of 

 the bands or collars which originally served the useful purpose of fastening the 

 retroflected ends of the bows of fibulse. Found in Mound 74, 1902. (Figured in 

 ' Proc. Som. Arch. Soc' vol. xlviii. pt. 2, pi. iii. fig. 1). Other fibula; of this type 

 have been found in the Village— viz., E. 5, 22, 2G, and 158. 



248. Rivet-head, diam. 12 mm., height 6 mm. The rivet, diam. 2 mm., projects 

 0-8 mm. below the base of the head. Mound 67. 



249. Two pieces of thin bronze plate, 43 and 45 mm. respectively in length. 

 One piece has a small rivet-hole. Mound 67. 



250. Piece of bordering, length 28 mm. S.E. of Mound 83. 



251. Solid bronze link-shaped object, consisting of a stem of circular section 

 tapering both ways and joining two circular flat ends (103 to 11'5 mm. in diam.) ; 



