136 Notes on a Late Celtic RuVbish Heap, near Oare. 



Sling bullet of baked clay, length l|in. (PI. III., F.). It is a 

 little curious that no slingstone, or sling bullet, should have been 

 found in any of the excavations that were made by General Pitt- 

 Eivers in the Komano-British villages, &c, in S. Wilts. He only 

 mentions having found two, one in the Wansdyke and one at Mt. 

 Caburn, near Lewes. Yet they do not seem to be generally very 

 rare in Wilts ; they have been found at Beckhampton, Cold Kitchen 

 Hill, Highfield near Salisbury, and Oare, and one was picked up 

 on the surface in a field near Devizes, where there are plentiful 

 Boman remains (Mother Antony's Well). Similar sling stones 

 have also been found at the Glastonbury Lake village, and seem to 

 be more especially associated with objects of late Celtic date. 



Large Spindlewhorl, roughly made out of the base of a pot of 

 brownish ware. Diameter, 2fin. (PI. III., D.). 



Large Spindlewhorl, similarly made out of the base of a pot of 

 coarse red ware. Diameter, 3^in., imperfect. (PI. III., G.). 



Small Spindlewhorl of grey pottery, chipped and ground into 

 shape, hole not central. Diameter, lin. (PI. III., C). 



Spindlewhorl of grey pottery, chipped into shape, hole not 

 central. Diameter, 2in. (PL III., A.). 



Spindlewhorl made from a rough fragment of grey pottery. No 

 attempt appears to have been made to chip it into a round form. 

 Diameter, about lfin. (PI. III., B.). 



Part of a small Spindlewhorl of blackish pottery, carefully turned j 

 or ground and with edges neatly rounded off'. 



Spindlewhorl of grey pottery, chipped into shape. This is a 

 particularly interesting whorl, as the process of boring the hole 

 was begun but never finished ; it is countersunk on both sides and 

 is almost but not quite through. Diameter, 2in. 



Six Disks of pottery resembling spindlewhorls, but without holes j 

 Diameter of largest, 3fin., of smallest, about fin. General Pitt- ' 

 Bivers thought that similar disks might have been used in some 

 kind of game. Might they not possibly be unfinished whorls ? 



Part of a base of a pot of brownish ware ; there is a hole through 

 the centre, but the edges are not chipped off; it is perhaps, there- ' 

 fore only a fragment of a vessel with a hole in the bottom and not| 



