536 A Late Celtic Inhabited Site at All Canni7igs Cross Farm. 



5 Part of large rude spindle whorl (?) of chalk, surface much scratched. 



Diameter 2|in. 



6 Piece of bracelet of Kimmeridge shale. 



7 Pendant of Kimmeridge shale, l^in. 



8 — 9 Fragments of iron, the only pieces of this metal found. The first 

 seems to have been a ring with an attachment, and the second, part 

 of a narrow chisel or similar tool. 



10 Bone scoop with perforation. Pieces of six other scoops were found. 



11 Bone object of unknown use. ifin. Somewhat similar objects have 



been found in the Glastonbury Lake Village, Proc. Somerset Arch. 

 Soc, 1905—6, p. 92, B 385 ; 1907—8, p. 133, B 4G9. 



12 Bone implement, imperfect, flat, rather like a paper knife. 



13 Bone implement. 



14 — 17 Bone awls. Pieces of several others were found. 



18 Bone needle, imperfect. Two other similar broken needles were found. 



19 Weaving comb of antler. It had eleven teeth, now all broken ; present 



length, 4fin. 



20 Weaving comb of antler, with seven perfect teeth ; it has a notch near 



the end of the handle. 4^in. 



21 Piece of deer's antler, perforated and smoothed. 



22 Piece of red deer's antler, cut off at both ends, and partly smoothed. 



23 Tine of stag's antler, polished by use. Several other pieces of worked 



bone and horn were found, all imperfect. 



Plate II. 



Fragment of bowl of grey ware with black polished surface, ornamented 

 with deeply scored lines above the shoulder. 



Bowl of grey ware coated red both inside and out, ornamented above 

 the shoulder with three ribs or cordons. Height 3in. 



A speciiuen of this red coated ware was sent to Mr. Thomas May, 

 who most kindly made the following note upon it : — " It has evidently 

 undergone a similar firing process to the early Egyptian ' black-topped 

 ware,' which it resembles on the outside. The natural body clay has 

 been coated with a pasty well washed slip, and after drying coated 

 with haematite (in the form of rouge or ordinary red ruddle) by 

 dipping in a watery solution or rubbing. It has then been polished 

 with a smooth stone and burnt in an open fire. The free access of 

 oxygen has caused the outside surface to be reddened, but the iron 

 in the clay remains blue-grey on the inside." 



This red coated ware seems to be of rather rare occurrence ; it 

 appears to have been unknown in the lake villages at Glastonbury and 

 Meare, but has been found lately at Hengistbury, near Christchurch, 

 Hants, in association with Early Iron Age pottery. In this county 

 it occurred in the Highfield pit-dwellings (Salisbury Museum), and 

 fragments have been found in Oldbury Camp, at Cold Kitchen Hill, 

 and in pits on Wilsf ord Down {see Catalogue of the Devizes Museum, 

 Part II.). 



