By the Rev. E. H. Goddard. 481 



(Rushall Down. Similar keys occur in the Silchester Collection, 

 at Eeading. They are undoubtedly of Eoinan age. 



Kg. 10, Plate II., is a pipe key of different form with flat handle 

 pierced with a hole, and broad plate with four teeth projecting at 

 right angles. Its length is 4£in. It came from Oldbury Hill and 

 is no doubt of Eoman date. Several similar keys are in the 

 Guildhall Museum (Catalogue, Plate XXVIL, ISTos. 1 — 6), and 

 others are in the Silchester Collection, at Reading. Two from the 

 Bomano-British Village of Woodcuts are figured by General Pitt- 

 Eivers, Excavations, I., Plate XXIV., Figs. 5 and>8. 



The remarkable object shown in Fig. 8, Plate II., was found 

 before 1849 "in breaking up the down for cultivation, about a-mile- 

 and-a-half to the right of the Beckhampton and Devizes Eoad, 

 taken at right-angles to that road, about a mile from Beckhampton, 

 turnpike, nine inches below the surface," and is illustrated by 

 Dean Merewether in his account of " Antiquities found near 

 Avebury," p. 110, Fig. 18, in Memoirs Illustrative of the History 

 and Antiquities of Wiltshire; Proceedings of the Archaeological 

 Institute, Salisbury, 1849; and also in The Diary of a Dean. It 

 is an iron tubular padlock with two keys — apparently pipe keys — 

 attached to it, both lock and keys being now much corroded. I 

 do not know of another example quite like it. Its age is doubtful. 



Plate III. 



The iron objects shown on Plate III. are all from Eushall Down 

 and all probably of Eomano-British date. 



Fig. 1., a pair of smith's tongs with broad flattened ends. Length, 

 lOin. Several pairs of smiths' tongs of a larger size than this are 

 in the Silchester Collection, at Eeading. Others are in the Guild- 

 hall Museum (Catalogue, Plate XVIIL, Fig. 8). 



, Fig. 2 is an example of a kind of key often found on Eoman 

 sites. There are several at Eeading in the Silchester Collection. 

 This example has two apertures in the flat plate which is set at 

 right angles to the stem, and was perhaps used to open a padlock 

 furnished with a bolt similar to Fig. 9. This is the bolt of a spring 

 padlock, 2fin. in length, with two double-barbed springs at right 



