98 Casterley Camp Excavations. 



5 Bronze button, with hank, raised mouldings and central boss. A 



practically identical button is figured by Evans, Bronze Implements 

 (Fig. 499). The type seems to date back to the end of the Bronze 

 Age, or to the Hallstatt period, but as far as the association of this 

 one goes it might be Roman ; 4ft. deep in ditch No. 1. 



6 Bronze tag found associated with Roman pottery 2ft. deep in burnt 



layer at entrance to rectilinear enclosure. 



7 Bronze tweezers, plain ; 2ft. deep, ditch No. 6. 



8 Bronze fragment ; 7ft. deep with bead rim bowl pottery, ditch No. 1. 



9 Piece of ornamental bronze — a necklet 1 Little collars of bronze are 



clamped on to it at regular intervals giving it a beaded appearance ; 

 the space between the collars is engraved with transverse lines. 

 Surface trench in irregular enclosure A. 



10 Bronze tweezers, plain and strong ; hut site at la. 



11 Bronze " viper " ring, 2 — 3ft. deep in burnt layer at entrance to rectili- 



near enclosure. 



12 Coiled iron ring, it is much rusted but seems to have terminated in the 



likeness of an animal's head. Hut site at la. Several similar rings 

 were found. 



13 Bronze tag ; 3ft. deep, cutting 2, ditch No. 1. 



14 Bone counter with eight-rayed cross scratched on one face. Found in 



heap of rubbish in praefurnium of T-shaped fire place ; ditch No. 6. 



15 Bone button; bottom of pit No. 1. 



16 Similar bone button. Surface trench in irregular enclosure A. 



Plate II. 



1 Iron object, plated with tin, of unknown use. The under side and the 

 two sections of the bar connecting the terminals are not plated. It 

 would seem, therefore, to have been intended to show only the 

 upper surface, and to have had bands or rings of some kind round 

 these portions of the bar ; the plating on the inner edges of the 

 terminals is more worn than that on the outer edges ; 1ft. deep, 

 ditch No. 1. Late-Celtic or Roman 1 A similar obJBct, but in 

 bronze, was found at Cirencester, and is now in the Corinium 

 Museum ; another, also in bronze, in the British Museum, was found 

 at Polden Hill, Somerset, with Late-Celtic remains, and others have 

 been found in Late-Celtic association. It is thought that they are 

 connected with horse harness or trappings. 



■2 Iron hinge pin brooch ; hut site at la. 



3, 5, 7, 8 Iron cleats for clamping wood or leather ; Figs. 3, 5, 7, were 

 found in heap of rubbish in praefurnium of T-shaped fire place ; 

 Fig. 8 was found together with nine hob nails, and had doubtless 

 been attached with them to the sole of a boot ; 2ft. deep, ditch No. 5. 



4 Iron chisel ; surface of ditch No. 2. 



6 Iron knife blade ; 4ft. deep in ditch No. 1. 



9 Iron object resembling a modern horseshoe nail, 2ft. deep in ditch 

 No. 1 ; cutting 1. 

 10 Iron stylus with fan shaped eraser ; found in burnt layer at entrance 

 to rectilinear enclosure. 





