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Bronze Objects not included in the list in Wilts 

 Arch. Mag*., xxxvii., 117 



]5ronze looped Palstave, plain, 3iin. long x l^in. in width of edge, found 

 at Yarnbury Castle several years ago. In possession (1911) of Mr. V. 

 Moore, of Wilton. Drawing of it in Devizes Museum Library. 



Bronze socketed gouge, a slender perfect specimen, 3^in. long, found at 

 Upper Upliam, 1911. In possession of .Mr. A. D. Passmore, of Swindon. 



Bronze socketed looped celt, a fine specimen in fine preservation found at 

 Cliarnage, near Mere, 1911, and in the possession of Mr. A. Pt. White, 

 of that place. A stout large Celt, 4^in. long, the blade 2in. wide. 

 Three ribs in relief run half-way down the blade from the socket. It 

 is much like Fig. 126 in Evans' Bronze Implements. A drawing of it 

 has been placed in Devizes Museum Library. 



Small triangular Knife-Dagger. Among a small collection of objects of 

 antiquity purchased by Mr. and ^Irs. B. H. Cunnington and presented 

 by them to the Museum, in February, 1912, are the principal objects 

 mentioned as having been collected by J. Stoughton Money, F.S.A., and 

 as being afterwards exhibited at the Marlborough Meeting of 18.j9 by 

 Mr. C. May, of that place, in Wilts Arch. Mag., vi., 259. One of these 

 is the object described as an "Arrow-head of bronze from a barrow 

 near Charlton, Donhead, Wilts, opened 1832." This I noted in my 

 "List of Bronze Objects found in Wiltshire" (IF.^. J/., xxxvii., 123) 

 as No. 46 in the list, expressing the opiuiou that it was probably a 

 knife-dagger. It proves to be an exceedingly perfect exami)le of the 

 small plain triangular knife-dagger with pointed blade, broad at the 

 handle end, retaining two of its rivets, the third and centre rivet hole 

 having been broken away. The blade is plain, but has a broad bevel 

 on each side. The mark of the handle on the blade shows a line straight 

 across, without the semi-lunar indentation which is seen on so many 

 of the larger dagger blades. The edge of the blade, which is singularly 

 well preserved, is still sharp enough to cut with. Its length is 2^in., 

 with a breadth at the handle end of li^in. 



Bronze socketed looped Celt, said to have been found at "Blood Hill,' 

 Salisbury Plain, and to have been sold March "jtli, 1902, by Mr. Greene, 

 school inspector, to the dealer from whom C.mon (rreenwell i)urcha.sed 

 it, in whose collection it now is. It is an unusual chisel-shaped im- 

 l)lement, widening out without mouldings at the socket, and very 

 slightly at the cutting edge, being narrowest in the middle. Canon 

 (Jreunweli, to whom 1 am indebted for the knowledge of this celt, 

 describes it as " very imorly made," and as having upon it on both sides 

 some very faint decoration marks resembling the letter V or V. 

 "A Bit of Old r>rass," unspeeitied, found in a barrow to south of 01di)ury 

 Camp (CalstomO with skeleton and drinking '"up. Probably a knife- 

 dagger. ir..l..l/., xxiii., 2ir). K. H. C;oL)D.\iti). 

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