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must have existed before clay had been introduced to this particular mound, and which 
was probably destroyed by a conflagration. All are charred to a white or cream 
colour. The plain pieces of cut bone with the natural longitudinal bore are all 
about the same size ; and so are the shorter pieces, viz., those with pairs of perfora- 
tions bored transversely and laterally and ornamented with the dot-and-circle 
pattern. It is quite possible that these little objects formed part of a double- 
stringed necklace, two of the plain ‘beads’ being threaded horizontally to every 
ornamental one vertically. 
394. Drill-bow made from a rib-bone. Total length on the curve, 259mm. The 
perforation at each end is circular and about 4°2 mm. in diam. The flatter end 
has rounded corners. It has no decoration. Mound 71. A similar drill-bow orna- 
mented with crossed lines, forming lozenges, was found in Mound 44 in 1893. 
395. Tibia of animal, sharpened to a blunt point at the slender part of the 
shaft; length, 148 mm. Mound 70. 
396. Polishing-bone, consisting of a metatarsus of red-deer with the condyles 
wanting. The bone is remarkably smooth, and exhibits evidence of having been 
considerably gnawed at both ends. Mound 7]. 
397. Smooth rib-bone showing two cut notches. Mound 71. 
398. Three metatarsi of sheep or goat, all more or less worked, two showing 
signs of scratching all round the shafts, followed by considerable polishing of the 
surface. Mound 71. (See description of another, B 373, in last year’s Report.) 
399. About two-thirds of a metatarsus of horse, smoothed for the purpose of pol- 
ishing or burnishing. Mound 71. 
400. The greater portion of a roughly-formed bone needle, broken across the eye, 
which was approximately 3°7 mm. in diam. Max. ext. width, 6-7 mm. Mound 71. 
Crucibles. (C.) 
25. Portion of a grey, triangular, hand-made crucible, made from a very fine clay. 
Mound 71, Portions of several crucibles of this form have been found in the village, 
but nothing till this year since 1896. A small portion of one (not numbered) was 
found in Mound 73 this season. 
Baked Clay. (D.) 
72. Small black dise of baked clay (?), varying in diam. from 19:9 to 20:4 mm. ; 
max. thickness, 3-1 mm. In section it is concavo-convex, the concavity being more 
pronounced than the convexity. Mound 69. 
Sling- bullets.—Only six, ina baked condition, were found during this season, viz., 
2 in Mound 69, 1 in Mound 70, 2 in Mound 71, and 1 in trenching N. of Mound 72. 
One, unbaked, was found in the latter locality. 
Balls of Baked Ciay.—A large ball, partly perforated, was found on the second 
floor of Mound 71. Four small balls came from Monnd 70, three being partly per- 
forated ; they may have been used as the heads of bone awls or pins. Another ball 
of clay was found on the E. edge of Mound 53. 
Unbaked Clay.—A small pellet from the trenching N. of Mound 72. 
Loom- Weights.—-Triangular, with perforations across the corners:—8 in the 
peaty layer under the clay floors of Mound 70; 1 found in trenching W. of Mound 
53. Of a rounded and narrow form with one perforation :—2 in Mound 70, 1 in 
Mound71. Small fragments of many others were found during the season, espe- 
cially under the clay of Mound 70. 
Other Baked Clay Objects.—A large curved piece, which may have formed part of 
the margin of an oven. Wound under the clay of Mound 70, on the floor, which 
afforded evidence of a conflagration. A plug tor stopping up a hole in a hut-wall 
was found in the trenching S. of Mound 71. 
Bronze Objects. (.) 
102. Two pieces ofa small bronze finger-ring ; ext..diam., 18 mm, Mound 70, 
1895. 
198. Fragment of thin bronze of concavo-convex cross-section, ornamented with 
@ specession of slight transverse grooves. Mound 63, 
