538 A Late Celtic Inhahited site at All Cannings Cross Farm. 



rudely drawn zig-zag lines were scratched in the ware after it was 

 coated with the red colouring material, and after baking. 



3 Fragment of shouldered vessel of grey ware, with deeply incised 



ornamental indentations. 



4 P'ragment of shouldered vessel of brownish ware, with lines and circles 



produced by impression of a hollow tube as in PI. V., 3. The 

 incisions are filled in with a white slip as in PI. V., 4. 



5 Fragment of thick grey ware with incised lines and stabbed ornament. 



6 Fragment of shouldered vessel of red ware, with incised lines and 



circular depressions, produced, not by a hollow tube as in Fig. 4, 

 and PI. v., 3, but by a solid round ended tool, about the size of an 

 ordinary lead pencil. 



7 Fragment of reddish ware, with impressed lines. 



Other Finds. 



Fragments of two human skulls. 



Small flat strip of bronze. The only piece of this metal found. 



Several whetstones, and used pebbles. 



Flint flakes, with evidence of use. These may have served as strike-a-lights. 

 They are of black unweathered flint. 



Conical upper quernstone of sarsen, with oval shaped hole on the side for 

 handle; weight 91 lbs.; found under the hedge at the side of the 

 ploughed ground ; it seems 16 have been taken oflf the ploughed 

 ground and thrown there out of the way. There are furrows on the 

 stone caused by the plough.^ 



One complete saddle quern of sarsen, 13in. x 7^in. Fragments of fifteen 

 other saddle querns of sarsen were found. 



Several rubbers of sarsen. These are distinct ifrom the sarsen hammer- 

 stones, and generally have one flat surface only. They were probably 

 used for grinding with the saddle querns. 



Pieces of two ground flint celts, weathered white, with ironmould stains. 

 These were picked up on the ploughed surface, and are no doubt much 

 older than, and had nothing to do with, the settlement. The flint flakes 

 which it is suggested may have served the settlement as strike-a-lights 

 are scarcely weathered at all, but are black with the edges still sharp 

 and rough to the touch. 



Fragments of several crucibles. 



Pieces of iron slag. 



Pieces of hematite ; this, together with the iron slag, seems to show that a 

 certain amount of iron smelting must have been done on the spot. 



Bones of oxen {Bos longifrons), sheep and goat, pigs, red deer, roe deer, and 

 of a small horse or pony. 



^ This conical quern with the hole for the handle in the side appears to 

 be the characteristic Late Celtic form as opj^osed to the flat Roman or 

 Romano-British type. Great numbers of conical querns were found in the 

 Late Celtic Camp of Hunsbury, near Northampton, and are in the museum 

 at that place. They also occurred in the Highfield Pits, at Salisbury. 



