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



were discovered. No other barrow in Wiltshire has yielded any- 

 thing of the kind. 



The three funicular Bronze Torques (Nos. 289 — 291), the only 

 examples found in the county, of which one is now in the Blackmore 

 Museum and a second in the Farnham Museum, are all said to have 

 been found in " Barrows near Lake." Such Torques are assigned 

 by Montelius to Period III. 



Three specimens (or ? only two) of the small penannular Eings 

 known as Eing Money (Nos. 292 — 294), of bronze plated with a 

 thin covering of gold, have been found at different times at or near 

 Bishopstone, S. Wilts (Plate YII., Fig. 14). 



Also formed of a bronze core with thin covering of gold is the 



(No. 295.) Bronze Horns plated with Gold. Normanton Bar. 155.^ — 



curious little pair of horns, if the ornament may be so described, 

 here illustrated (No. 295). It was found in a barrow at Normanton, 

 near Stonehenge. It seems to be the only example of its kind 

 known. 



Perhaps, however, the most remarkable thing found in the 

 county is the prong-shaped object (No. 296), here figured. 



The two tines of the prong — for it resembles an ordinary agri- 

 cultural prong more than anything else — are of strong twisted 

 bronze of square section, the points curving upwards exactly as 

 those of a prong do. Although the points themselves are gone, it 

 is evident that this curve is original and not accidental. It is 

 clear, too, that the points never joined and formed a ring, as 

 some writers have supposed. It seems, again, to have no affinity 



