Notes. 613 



Down (Plates LV— LVII. Cat. of Ant. in Mtiseuni, Pt. 11. ). Wiltshire, 

 so rich in remains of the earlier periods, is most unaccountably j)oor in 

 Saxon relics. 



he Museum has also acquired by purchase from Mr. O. G. S. Crawford, 

 Curator of the new Isle of Wight Museum, in Carisbrooke Castle, 

 certain bronzes which belonged to the Old Newport Museum, the 

 contents of which have now (1911-12) been removed to Carisbrooke, all 

 objects not connected with the Isle of Wight being got rid of. They 

 consist of two handles of some such small bucket or vessel as the Bartlow 

 Vase, with recurved knobbed ends, and one smaller similar handle 

 retaining on one side the attachment by which, apparently, it was 

 fastened to a drawer or box of wood. The remaining object is a portion , 

 4Mn. long, of the handle of a stout ladle, the end recurved into a well- 

 formed duck's head. Similar long-handled ladles with ducks' heads 

 are in the Museum at Naples.^ All these objects were attached to cards 

 bearing the inscription "Taken from " [or " Found in "] "a Barrow in 

 Wiltshire. Presented by A. H. Burkitt, F.S.A." Beyond this nothing 

 is known af the place of their discovery. I should be very glad to hear 

 of any clue as to the locality of the barrow from which these objects 

 are said to have come. Ed. li. Goddaru. 



Bronze Implements not hitherto Kecorded. 



alstave found at Winterbourne Gunner. The Rev. C. V. Godclard writes 

 that Mrs. Cowan, wife of the Rev. G. A. Cowan, Rector of Purse 

 Caundle, Dorset, possesses a bronze palstave found at Winterbourne 

 Gunner, measuring now 5^ inches in length. Both the cutting edge 

 of the blade and the butt end of the socket have been broken, and 

 owing to a recent fall the implement is now in two pieces. It has a 

 long socket with deep stop ridge, with a V shaped ornament just on 

 the blade side of the latter. It is looped, but the looj) has not been 

 perforated in the casting. A drawing of the implement by ]Mr. 

 Goddard has been placed in the Society's collection of drawings anil 

 prints. 



jpearhead found near Spye Park. Police Sergeant Hill, now stationed at 

 Purton, tells me (October 3rd,iyi2) that some nine years ago he became 

 possessed of a bronze socketed and looi)ed spearhead, which was found 

 somewhere " near Spye Park," presumably in the parish of Chittoe. It 

 was about 6 or 7 inches long, with a blade about 2 mches wide, having 

 a strong midrib. He took it home, but it disappeared, and he never 

 knew what became of it. Ed. H. Goddard. 



olished Stone Celt with grooves on the edges. 



, The celt (hero illustrated)^ was oriLcinally in the Arnold Museum at 

 I Gravesend. 1 happened to attend the saK; at Stevens' Auction llooms. 

 ' in L ondon, and bought it in a mixed lot. It had a label stuck o n to 

 i' (Gargiulo. U<cueU (l>s Montnw/i/s . , Ju .\fiestf yatiotiaf' 



I'iites 8'), 8G.) 



!" The Society is nulel)ted to Mr. Newall I'or (lie cost of the plate and bloek 

 i^Listrating his note. 



