By Maud E, Cunnington. 135 



{PL II., E). A similar object from the Glastonbury Lake Village 

 is figured in Proc. Somerset Arch. Society, LI. I. 90. Examples are 

 also figured from the early site of Stradonic on the Continent. 



Large sickle-shaped Iron Door Key, point missing, loop at end of 

 handle. Length in straight line from tip to end of handle, 11 in. 

 <P1. II. B). 



Small piece of curved iron, possibly the point of the key. 

 Length, 2\ in. (PL II., B). 



Precisely similar keys are in the British Museum from the Late 

 •Celtic sites of Spettisbury and Hod Hill, Dorset. Gen. Pitt- 

 Eivers figures others from theEomano-British villages of Botherley, 

 Woodcuts, and Woodyates, and from a dwelling pit outside Martin 

 Down^Camp. Excavations, I., 75 ; II, 136 ; III., 138 ; IV., 207 ; 

 one from Bushall Down and one from Westbury are in the Devizes 

 I Museum, another from the Boman Villa at Coombe Down, found 

 ! 1860, is in the Museum at Bath. 



Sickle-shaped Key, similar to, but smaller than the last, in very 

 .good condition and unbroken. Length, 7f in. (PL II., A). 



Small iron object with loop at one end (PL I., D). It resembles 

 a watch key, and is perhaps a nail cleaner with the point broken 

 j off. Length, If in. 



Plat strip of iron with two holes for rivets. 2 in. x 1 in. 



Seven iron nails with large flat heads, and three pieces of iron 

 !bent over at one end, possibly staples (PL II., E). 



Part of an iron tool, square in section, but flattened at the end. 

 A small chisel. Length, 4 in. 



Iron object, perhaps a bridle bit (PI. II., D). It is made of a 



strip of iron, curved round and welded so as to form a loop at 



either end with a solid bar between ; an iron ring is still linked 



I into one of the loops. Length from end to end of the loops 5^in. ; 



, diameter of ring, about 2 in. Ancient bridle-bits do not seem 



; always to have had a link or swivel in the centre of the mouthpiece, 



see iron bit from Stanwick, bronze hit from Bise, Holderness, 



Arclmologia, LX., p. 251 ; also Munro's Lake Dwellings of Europe, 



p. 287, Fig. 15, 16; p. 524, Fig. 8. The size is about what it 



should be for a bit. 



