134 Notes on a Late Celtic Rubbish Heap, near Oare. 



Descriptive List of Objects Found. 



Bronze Tweezers. Length 2in., (PI. I. C) . 



Bronze Bow Fibula (PI. LA). T -shaped head with long spring 

 secured over a hook at the back of the bow. The catch plate has 

 probably been pierced with holes, now broken, pin missing. Length 

 3in. Cf. Very similar examples from Eotherly and Woodcuts 

 Eomano-British Villages; Pitt Pavers' Excavations, I., 49, Fig. 10 ; 

 Examples of both this and the following fibula occurred in 

 association with Late Celtic remains at Hod Hill, Dorset, and 

 are now in the British Museum. It probably dates from between 

 50 B.C. and 50 A.D. 



Iron Fibula of the safety-pin pattern (PI. L, B). Made of one 

 piece of stout iron wire ; point of pin and catch missing. Of La 

 Tene TIL type. An identical fibula was found at the Eomano- 

 British village of Eotherley by General Pitt Eivers (Excavations, 

 vol. II. 126, Fig. 6), it is also very like a bronze specimen from 

 Aylesford in the British Museum. The date assigned to this type 

 of fibula by Mr. Eeginald Smith is from B.C. 50 to A.D. 50. Cf. 

 W.A.M., xxxv., 402. 



Small Iron Bow Fibula ; much rusted, pin and spring missing. 

 Length, \\ in. 



Iron Arrow-head, socketed, with flat blade and long broad barbs, 

 one barb missing. Length, 4J in. (PI. II., C). 



Similar arrow-heads were found at Eotherley and Wpodcuts,but 

 on or near the surface, and General Pitt-Bivers remarks that 

 those with long barbs are usually supposed to be mediaeval and 

 that more information would be desirable as to the positions in 

 which they are found (Excavations, III., 40). The finding there- 

 fore of this one with remains of such an early date as those of 

 Oare is interesting. There is, however, a specimen in the Ashmolean I 

 Museum from the Late-Celtic and Eomano-British site of Wood 

 Eaton, Oxon ; and another in Bath Museum, found with Eoman| 

 remains at Lansdown, 1905. 



An iron object suggestive in appearance of a small hammerl 

 head, but possibly the guard of a sword or dagger. Length, 2>\ in. 



