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The Relics. 



Amber. — About one-quarter of a large orange-coloured clouded 

 amber ring (A 3), which, when perfect, was 40 mm. in diameter. 



Bone Objects. — Perhaps the most interesting objects of bone 

 found in the last excavations at Meaxe are the thi^ee pieces of worked 

 scapulce (B 81, 86 and 87). The heads and longitudinal spines have 

 been cut down considerably, and little remains of the flat parts of the 

 bone which have been intentionally removed. Two of these objects 

 are perforated at the head. All of them are ornamented on the upper 

 surfaces, (a) with two long rows of large dots and circles ; (b) with 

 transverse incised lines; and (c) with rows of circular depressions 

 3 mm. in diameter. A scapula of sheep, perforated at the head, was 

 also found. 



Among the other specimens is a long needle (B 90), with a lop-sided 

 eye countersunk on one side ; a smooth and tooled rib-bone (B 82), 

 rounded off at one end, and having two perforations at the other; 

 another perforated rib-bone (B 84) ; a polished metacarpus of ox (B 88) ; 

 an awl in fine condition (B 80); a perforated radius of sheep (B 85); 

 and some miscellaneous and, for the most part, incomplete implements 

 connected with weaving. 



Crucibles. — Two fragments of the usual type. 



Baked Clay. — Ball of clay with a hole which does not penetrate 

 through. A few sling-bullets and fragments of loom-weights. 



White Metal. — A wheel-shaped disc, or amulet (Y 2), of white 

 metal ;^ external diameter 25"7 mm.; weight 53 grains. This open- 

 work object consists of a ring, or wheel, with four curved spokes (each 

 pair forming an ogee curve) ; it is ribbed all over on both sides. D6che- 

 lette, in ' Manuel d'Arch^ologie Pr^historique Celtique et Gallo-Eo- 

 maine,' 1914, figures very similar rings (rouelles) having diameters of 

 from 25 to 50 mm. They are common in the La Tfene stations ; some of 

 the ' wheels ' have straight spokes (sometimes only four in number) ; and 

 some of them are ornamented round the outer edge by cogged notches. 

 They have been found in Marne and Bohemia attached to fibulse — 

 either fixed to the back of the brooch by means of a small chain, or 

 merely looped on to the bow (see D^chelette, illustration, p. 1298). 

 He has figured similar pendants belonging to the Bronze Age. 



Bronze. — The two fibulae found last September are of considerable 

 interest, one being of the earliest type, the other of the latest type 

 found in the Lake Villages. 



(EE 9). Fibula of La Tene I. type - — one of some forty examples 

 of this type so far recorded as having been found in Britain. The 

 specimen is 54'5 mm. in length from the head of the bow to the nose, 

 but the brooch is not complete and the coil is broken. It resembles 

 in outline the longest brooch of this type (86 mm.) found in Britain — 

 viz., that discovered on Ham Hill, Somerset, in 1912 (Taunton 

 Museum).^ The Meare specimen is of a somewhat attenuated form, 



' At first it was thought to be of silver, but has since been tested. This is 

 the only specimen of white metal found in the Lake Villages. 



' Two brooches of La Tene II. type were found at Glastonbury, but no 

 specimen of La Tene I. 



» Figured in Proc. Som. Arch. Soc, LVIII. i. 121. 



