584 Liddington Castle (Camp). 



14. Rim of straight-sided vessel ; top edge notched ; brown. 12mm. 



15. Thick reddish brown ; pattern of scored lines. 18mm. 



16. Grey brown ; pattern of three scored lines. 14mm. 



17. Shoulder of vessel ; plain below.ornamented above; black brown. 10mm. 



1 8. Thick black-brown ; pattern of six converging lines. 16mm. 



19. Straight- sided vessel, fragments of rim, and towards base ; indistinct 



pattern, triangular, of punctured dots ; inside thickly coated with 

 powdered flint ; black with brown patches. 11mm. 



20. Black rim ; network of grooved lines ; surface slightly polished. 16mm. 



21. Dark coral red, rim ; pattern of alternately reversed triangles filled 



with grooved lines ; identical with ornament on Bronze Age incense 

 cups. 14mm. 



22. Thick brown ; line of impressed circles made by a hollow bone or elder 



twig (?). 17mm. 



PLATE IV. 



1 . Hard close-grained sandstone, carefully worked into an irregular circle 



by hand. Diameter 42mm ; thickness, 24mm. One similar, but 

 kidney-shaped, was with it. 50mm. X 21mm. 



2. Whorl of hard chalk. Diameter 37mm. 



3. Whorl 1 M ade from an exceedingly hard pebble, hand worked. 



Irregularly round. Seven horizontal lines. Diameter 28mm. ; height 

 19mm. Perforation straight-sided but nearly 1mm. greater at base 

 than at top. 



4. Bronze awl of large strong square section ; damaged. Length 60mm. ; 



section 65mm. 



5. Bronze gilt object ? ; the surface channelled into scrolls, the hollows 



having been filled in with green enamel. This object is not from the 

 excavation, but was picked up on the surface of a ploughed field 

 under Liddington Castle towards Medbourne. It has a very Late 

 Celtic or Romano British appearance, but Mr. Reginald Smith, 

 who has seen it, regards it as of the same date as the enamelled 

 escutcheons for attachment to hanging bowls of about the 7th century 

 AD. ' 



6. Fragment of ring-headed pin ; part of the rivet which secured the head 



remains. Bronze. Extreme length 30mm. 



7. Thin plate of bronze perforated. 36mm. X 17mm. Perforation 5mm. 



X 2mm. 



8. Pottery, brown, perforated, length 33mm., thickness 5mm. 



1 See Proc. Soc. Ant, 2nd S., xxii., 66—77, especially Fig. 4 on page 74. 



