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elongated form, which were perhaps _ as whetstones. An- 
gular pieces of slate are also numerou . They are probably 
bon 
pottery, spindle-whorls, and flint-flakes. The bronze articles 
are a fibula, the bowl and part of thestem of a spoon, a spear 
head, a fragment of a socketed celt, two or three rings, one coil 
of a helical spring, a pin about 38 inches long, and an object 
resembling a horseshoe in form, but not more than an inch long. 
In this connection may be mentioned a lump of metal which, 
se to be pure virgin ore.’ the pottery, oink 
one small piece, hee seer Senda is extremely coarse, and 
in most eases it is unglazed. number sa fragments 
have been found, but nothing reer. er essel 
They are generally ornamented, and from the diftbrent p alain 
as well as from other facts, it may be pial reer that they rep- 
resent a considerable number of utensils. O probably 
formed part of a vessel in which things were burnt, as on its 
inner surface there is a firm admixture of clay and small bits 
of — Much of the pottery is without doubt of Roman 
of an inch in Sdebate wie somewhat ey fashioned ms 
portions of combs, and one of which bears traces of ornamen- 
tation ; _ an article about 3 inches long, apparently the han- 
dle of som 
The spindle-whorle — formed of different materials, such as 
Devonian red grit, one of the harder varieties of Triassic sand- 
stone (rocks shneaaaile in the neighborhood), a somewhat coarse, 
greenish, schistose rock not found near the district, _Kim- 
meridge coal. They differ somewhat in dimensions and in work- 
ee some being well a whilst | — are a0 1 
na made as to render it safer perhaps 
nes.” With them may “ast. a aot ae Jick ap- 
