580 Liddington Castle (Gamp). 



The quality of the flint working is distinctly poor, the flaking is 

 irregular and would seem to indicate a late rather than an early 

 period ; the arrowhead is of uncommon shape and of fair work- 

 manship. 



The axe or macehead is a rare piece, made from a large flat 

 triangular flake of sarsen, and doubtless intended to be mounted 

 in a withy stick, the middle of which would be looped round the 

 notches and the two ends brought together side by side to make 

 the handle. The notches are carefully worked from both sides 

 It measures 176 mm. x 1.24 mm., the greatest thickness being 

 31 mm., and the weight 1 lb. 7 ozs. 



One mealing stone, or saddle quern, although worn very thin 

 and broken, still measures 16 inches by 10 inches. 



Bronze. 

 1 awl. 



1 small flat plate, perforated. (PI. IV., 7). 



1 bent pin. (PI. IV., 6). 



2 fragments of thin plate. 

 The awl (PI. IV, 4) is of a thick type and square section, of 



which a certain number of specimens have been found on the downs 

 but not in barrows, or as a rule in very definite association with 

 any very definite period. The fragment of a ring headed bent pin 

 is of interest because it can with some show of reason be approxi- 

 mately dated to the 2nd century B.C. 1 These pins are characteristic 

 of the Early Iron Age, and when perfect have a large ring head, 

 with interior ornamentation. 2 In some cases the ring head has 

 been rivetted to a flange cast on the pin itself, which appears to 

 be the case with this example. 



Iron. 



The only iron objects found are the remains of an interesting 



vessel formed of thin sheets of metal rivetted together with large 



round-headed bronze studs, the iron plates in some parts are double, 



the back plate flat, superimposed on which is a thin plate beaten 



1 Proc. Soc. Ant., xx., 344. 

 2 See one from " Danes Graves." Mortimer, Forty Years' Researches, 364. 



