By Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Cuunington. 99 



Plate III. 

 1 — 6 Iron horse shoes, sinuous edged and thin, with T-shaped nails ; 

 Fig. 1, 2ft. deep in ditch No. 2 ; Fig. 4, 2— 3ft. deep, ditch No 6 ; 

 Fig. 5, 3ft. deep in ditch No. 9 ; Figs. 2, 3, 6, surface. 

 We were told by old labourers that they used constantly to plough up 

 f old spearheads, coins, vandyked horse shoes, and odd pieces of metal " in 

 the camp ; the horse shoes were sometimes nailed to the barn doors, and 

 these three (Figs. 2, 3, 6) were actually obtained from the barn doors where 

 they had been hung. The period to which this type of shoe belonged has 

 been disputed. On the one hand, the type is said to date back to the Late- 

 Celtic period, and on the other, there is evidence of their use in late Norman 

 times, and they have recently (1911) been found at Old Sarum. Their 

 occurrence at Casterley in the silt of ditches, proves they are here at least 

 as early as the Roman period, and it is noteworthy that Fig. I. was found 

 deeper than any other Roman object in ditch No. 2. 



7 Iron hob nails. Similar nails were found in the praefurnium in ditch 



No. 6, the burnt layer ditch No. 1, ditch No. 5, &c. 



8 Iron hooks (two were found) to carry hinge of a door ; 2 — 3ft. deep, 



ditch 9. Similar hooks were found by General Pitt- Rivers at 

 Bokerley, Woodcuts, and Kotherley. {Excavations, III., p. 102, Fig. 

 24). 



9 Piece of the blade of a saw with rivet hole for attachment to handle. 



A similar saw from Hambledon Hill, Dorset, is in the British 

 Museum. 



10 Iron awls (three were found) ; 3ft. deep, ditch 6. 



11 Iron flesh fork. Praefurnium in ditch No. 6. 



12 Blade of iron shears ; hut site at la. 



13 Iron axe head ; 1ft. deep, ditch No. 6. 



14 Iron punch (two were found). Similar punches were found at New- 



stead (Roman Frontier Post, PI. lxvi., Fig. 20). 



15 Small iron spearhead ; surface of irregular enclosure A. 



16 Pin of stout iron wire, one end curled over to form the head. Found 



in association with bead-rim pottery at bottom of ditch No. 6. 



17 Bronze wire, the ends tapering and twisted round each other, a separate 



spiral twist of bronze wire loosely coiled round it— a necklet 1 Late- 

 Celtic or Roman 1 Found in surface trench at back of T-shaped 

 fire place. 



In the Morel Collection in the British Museum there are several 

 armlets of similarly twisted bronze wire, one having a bead as well 

 as a coil of wire loosely threaded on it. 



18-19 Spindle whorls of pottery ; surface of ditch No. 2. 



i 20 Piece of a rib bone ornamented ; bottom of pit No. 1. 



21 Disc of chalk resembling a large spindle whorl, with central hole worn 

 to an oval, and with a smaller hole on one side of it.; 6ft. deep, ditch 

 No. 1. 



1 22 Foot of a tripod vessel of pottery ; 5 — 6ft. deep, ditch No. 1. General 

 Pitt-Rivers found similar objects. (Excavations II., 159, Fig. 6). 



23, 24 Spindle whorls of pottery ; found in praefurnium in ditch No. 6, and 

 6ft.— 7ft. deep in ditch No. 7. 



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