November 27th, ipiy] PROCEEDINGS. v. 



The implements found along with the plated articles consist of 

 iron spears, axes, adzes, hammers, ploughshares, billhooks and sickles, 

 of the types found in settlements elsewhere of the same age, such as 

 Hunsbury near Northampton, and the Lake Village of Glastonbury. 

 In addition to these there were also fetters and a chain for a chain- 

 gang of six, with six rings to put round the neck. 



Similar bronze-plated iron articles have been met with elsewhere. 

 In a cemetery of the Prehistoric Iron Age at Aylesford, in the neigh- 

 bourhood of the Pilgrim's Way, north of Maidstone in the valley of the 

 Medway, similar plating is to be seen on the hoops of a wobden bucket. 

 The metal work is of beautiful design with the " late Celtic flam- 

 boyants," and similar to those on scabbards at La Tene in Switzerland. 

 The date of Aylesford is fixed by Sir Arthur Evans to be from about 

 100 B.C., down to the Christian Era. Iron-plated articles also occur 

 in settlements and burial places of the same age, in various parts of 

 Britain. A snaffle-bit, for example, found in Hunsbury Camp, near 

 Northampton, closely resembles that on the table. The trappings of 

 the horses, and the metal work of the wheels, found in the " chariot 

 burials " in Yorkshire, is of the same elaborate type. 



From the wide range of this art in Britain and on the continent, 

 it may be inferred that it was introduced from the latter, and was 

 afterwards practised in our islands. It was' probably brought into 

 Kent by the invading Belgae, and into Yorkshire by the Parish, whose 

 name still survives in Paris, their ancient land. 



We may further note that the Pilgrim's Way, proved by its passage 

 through Bigbury Camp to be Prehistoric, forms a part of the network 

 of roads in the Prehistoric Iron Age, affording free communication 

 between the various settlements, — Manchester, York, Durham, Huns- 

 bury (Old Northampton), Bath, the Lake Village of Glastonbury, Old 

 Sarum, and the camps of the downs of Berks, Wilts, and Dorset. 



Mr. R. L. Taylor, F.I.C., F.C.S., then read a paper on "The 

 Effect of Light on Solutions of Bleaching Powder." 



Experiments were described in which solutions of bleaching 

 powder, differing in concentration and prepared in different ways, were 

 exposed to diffused daylight and to intermittent bright sunlight, while 

 other similar solutions were kept in the dark. Some of the experiments 

 extended over fifteen months. 



It was found that solutions exposed to sunlight decomposed quite 

 rapidly, those exposed to diffused daylight much more slowly, while 

 dilute solutions (one per cent.) kept in the dark remained quite 

 unaltered for the whole period of fifteen months. A solution five 

 times the strength of the latter, however, did undergo some decompo- 

 sition, losing about 20 per cent, of its available chlorine even when 

 kept in the dark. Solutions exposed to diffused daylight lost from 



