106 Notes on Implements of the Bronze Age found in Wiltshire. 



A bronze mould for Celts (N"o. 170), uow at Farnham, was in- 

 eluded in the Bonhead founders' hoard ; another in the British 

 Museum (No. 171), labelled as "found in Wiltshire/' has the two 

 halves of the mould joggled together, and has upon it a cast of the 

 twine with which the model was bound. 



The only stone mould for bronze implements which appears to 

 have been recorded for Wilts is that of syenite found at Bulford, 

 formerly in the Lake House Collection, and now at Farnham 

 Museum. It is remarkable as being for two socketed Celts, one 

 with one loop the other with two. Celts of the latter type are 

 extremely rare, and no double-looped example has ever been found 

 in Wiltshire. 



Six of the thin blades with long tangs and sometimes with 

 thickened midribs, known as " Eazors,'' are recorded from the 

 county, three of which are at Farnham, two at Devizes, and one 



(No. 200.) Razor. Barrow on Rollestone Down. ^ 



at the Ashmolean. The latter of these (No. 202), from Winterslow 

 Hut Barrow, has an oval blade with regular longitudinal ribs like 

 a plantain leaf. Two, from Beckhampton Down, (No. 197, Plate 

 II., Fig. 9), and from a barrow on Eollestoii Down (No. 200), have 

 more or less semi-circular blades, and two others, both from the 

 ditch of South Lodge Camp, Kushmore, have very thin oval blades 

 (Nos. 198, 199), the one with a notch at the top, the other without 

 it. The first of these is the largest specimen from Wilts, measuring 

 4Jin. X Ifin. The sixth example, found " near Stonehenge " (No. 

 201), consists of little more than the midrib, the blade being broken 

 away. 



Montelius assigns these Kazors to Periods lY. and V., in company 

 with Palstaves, Leaf-shaped Swords, Eapier-shaped Daggers, and 

 socketed looped Spearheads. If this classification is to be strictly 



