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



Tanged chisels with a long tang and fan-shaped blade are rare 

 in England. Montelius assigns them to Periods IV. and V. of the 

 Bronze Age. A fine example (No. 210, Plate IL, Fig. 1), horn 

 Kennet, is in Mr. J. W. Brooke's Collection, and a smaller spade- 

 shaped implement, from Oldbury (ISTo. 208, Plate II., Fig. 6), are 

 the only two of this type certainly recorded for Wiltshire, but in 

 the Stourhead Collection is an example exactly resembling that 

 from Kennet, but smaller, from an unknown locality, possibly 

 Wiltshire. 



There is also the curious little chisel with broad semicircular 

 cutting edge and tang (No. 209), still fixed in its stag'shorn handle, 

 from Barrow 2, near Sidbury Hill. The length of the bronze is 

 Ifin. 



(No. 209.) Small Tang-ed Chisel. Barrow near Sidbury \\i\\. 



Chisels with straight narrow blades, have occurred in perhaps 

 four instances, one (No. 214), in a barrow at Lake, with a blade 

 about Jin. wide, is in the British Museum, another (No. 213), found 

 near Stonehenge, is at Farnham. In several instances, however, 

 it is difficult to say whether an implement should be regarded as 

 a narrow Chisel or as a large Awl or Rimer. Such is the specimen 

 from Beckhampton (No. 211), with one end flat and the other of 

 square section. Which end was intended for use ? In this case 

 the superior preservation of the square-sectioned end suggests that 

 this was the end enclosed in the handle (Plate IL, Fig. 10). 



Of small Awls or Prickers about thirty-nine seem to be recorded, 

 many of them under the name of " Pins," in Ancient Wilts and 

 elsewhere. Most of these have flat tangs ; others are pointed at 

 both ends. One retains portions of its wooden handle (No. 253)^ 



Awl in wooden handle. Locality unknown. -— 



