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period, and in view of the rarity in this county of any objects which 

 .can with certainty be assigned to the Anglo-Saxon Age, these 

 spearheads may with much more probability be given to the Eoman 

 period. Fig. 1, of which only the blade remains, is of unusual 

 size, l?iin. in length, it was found on Wilsford Down. Fig. 2, 

 with a long split socket, and very narrow blade, 13in. long in all, 

 came from Bulford Down, whilst Fig. 3, with a much shorter and 

 broader leaf-shaped blade, is with several other less perfect examples 

 in the Museum from Wilsford Down. 



Fig. 6, Plate IV., shows a still shorter leaf -shaped blade with a 

 strong rounded midrib, and a large socket without a split side. 

 Length, 5in. It is from the downs " East of Wansdyke." 



Fig. 4 is a spud from Koundway, which it must be confessed has 

 a rather modern appearance. 



Figs. 9 and 10 are small sickles, or hooks, the former has a tang 

 for the handle, the latter has the sides folded over so as to enclose 

 the handle on one side. Both these measure Tin. from the point 

 to the end of the handle. A much smaller sickle was found by- 

 General Pitt-Kivers in the Eoniano-British Village of Woodcuts 

 (Excavations, I., p. 90, PL XXIX., Fig. 12), and in the Silchester 

 Collection a somewhat similar implement with a blade set more at 

 right angles to the socket is called a pruning hook. Wilsford and 

 Eu shall. 



The knives, Figs. 11 and 12, are of common Eoman types. They 

 are from Eushall and Wilsford downs respectively. 



Figs. 5, 7, and 8 are horseshoes, all three of the " sinuous edge " 

 type, the age of which has been much disputed. 



Gen. Pitt-Kivers, in his account of the Excavations at Caesar's 

 Camp, near Folkestone, carried out in 1878 (Archceologia, XLVIL, 

 450), argues from the prevalence of these sinuous-edged shoes to 

 the exclusion of other forms, in a camp which was proved to be of 

 Norman age, and in which nothing Koman was found, that Mr. 

 Fleming (Horseshoes and Horse- shoeing) was wrong in concluding 

 that this particular form of shoe was Celtic and that its use was 

 abandoned in Europe long before the tenth century. He quotes 

 several instances, in addition to that of Caesar's Camp, where this 

 narrow sinuous-edged shoe has been found on the Continent; in 



