482 Notes on Iron Objects of Roman (?) Age in theSociety's Museum. 



angles to each other. 1 Another specimen in the Museum has only 

 one double-harbed spring. An example with two springs from the 

 Romano-British village at Woodcuts is figured by Gen. Pitt-Rivers 

 {Excavations, L, p. 73, PI. XXIV., Pig. 10). 



Pig. 3 is a stylus, 5fin. in length, of which the flattened end is 

 well preserved, but- the pointed end is rusted off. 



Pig. 4 is a drawshave with a broad, somewhat curved blade, the 

 tang for one wooden handle is complete, the other is broken off. 

 Length 94jm. It is probably Roman, but I do not know of 

 another example. 



Pig. 5 is a small fork with a pointed tang. Length, 3£in. 



Fig. 6, an iron blade precisely of the shape of a modern razor, 

 and no doubt intended as such. It has a curious little projection 

 at the back of the blade. Length 5|in. 



Fig. 8 shows the handle and apparently about half the blade of 

 a very small and irregularly-toothed saw. I do not know of 

 another example like it. Length 6fin. 



Pig. 7 is an arrowhead (apparently), of remarkable type, the 

 blade formed of three flat flanges joined at the centre ; the tang is 

 small, round, and awl-like. Total length 2|in. One similar 

 " arrowhead " is in the Silchester Collection at Reading. 2 



Plate IV. 



Plate IV. shows four iron spear-heads of different sizes and 

 shapes. Spear-heads of this character, with split sockets, were 

 formerly assigned in museums as a rule to the Anglo-Saxon period. 

 They are now, however, in many cases assigned in the British 

 Museum and elsewhere to either the Late Celtic or Romano-British 



1 Similar Roman padlocks were found at Great Chesterfield, Essex. See 

 Pitt- Pavers' Primitive Locks and Keys, Plate V-, Figs. 24 and 25c, p. 16. 



2 Mrs. Cunnington tells me, on the authority of Mr. Reginald Smith, of 

 the British Museum, who has seen this specimen, that the type has been 

 found at Hod Hill and there dates from the 1st Century, A,D. ; and that 

 there is also a specimen in the Ashmolean Museum. See Proc. Soc. Ant., 

 xxii., p. 533. Seven examples of this arrowhead were found at the bottom 

 of the well of the Roman fort on the Bar Hills, Dumbartonshire, and are 

 illustrated in Proc. Soc. Ant, Scot., 1905-6, p. 518. 



