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the other for making a double-looped celt 5\m. long ; found at Bulford, near 

 Amcsbury." For this most interesting object a spirited contest took place 

 between the British Museum and Gen. Pitt-Rivers, and in the end it fell to 

 the latter bidder for £30. Gen. Pitt-Rivers also secured for £8 the smaller 

 of the two fine torques of bronze and three bronze finger-rings from Lake, 

 the larger torque going for £7 10s. to Mr. Graves. The only lot secured 

 for our own Museum was No. 124, " a flat bronze armlet channelled on the 

 outer side " {unhappily grievously rubbed up and mended'] " and five simple 

 armlets of square or rounded bronze — all said to be from Lake " (£3 5s.), 

 In Mr. Duke's MS. notes of the contents of barrows opened in that neighbour- 

 hood, however, no mention of such armlets is made. Two bronze celts — one 

 socketed and one flanged — from Lake, went for £7. 



The following were the lots bought by the British Museum, all from Lake 

 unless otherwise noted :— 



Lot 118. A fine cinerary urn with deep rim, 15|in. high. £9 5*. 

 „ 114 Ditto, rim broken, 16in. high. £5 10s. 



„ 115. Ditto, unusually well made, and ornamented, narrow rim, 12in. 

 high. £10 10s. 



„ 116. Ditto, plain, no rim or ornament, marks on the side where handles 

 or eyelet-holes have been, 12Jin. high. £11. 



„ 117. Small food vessel, or urn, with two pierced ears or handles at 

 sides, 5in. high. £11. 



„ 118. About half-a-dozen small fragments of urns and food vessels with 

 different ornamentation. £3. 



„ 119. The small reversible "incense cup" figured in Ancient Wilts, 

 plate xxxi., one side of it a good deal broken ; and a curious 

 flat circular cover (? apparently not belonging to the cup). 

 £7 10s. 



„ 122. A small stone celt, broken flint arrow-head, three whetstones, and 

 four whorls from Lake and Normanton, &c. £2. 



„ 123. Five small bronze dagger blades — Ancient Wilts, vol. I., 211, 212 

 — and the point of a bronze spear-head found when making the 

 Kenuet and Avon Canal. £18. 



„ 127. A very curious late Celtic armlet of thin hammered bronze filled 

 up with lead or tin, with repousse engraved design and paste 

 beads set in it, found in 1802 in a stream work at Trenowethj 

 Cornwall : figured in Archceologia. vol. xvi. £20. 



„ 129. Four small pieces of bone, with patterns on them, described and 

 figured in Ancient Wilts, I., 312, as tesserce, but more probably 

 bone inlays ; with small bronze chisel, bronze and bone awls, 

 and three beads of jet and chalcedony — all found at Lake. 

 £7 15s. 



„ 130. Neck ornament formed of eight perforated plates of amber, found 

 at Lake, in 1806, in a barrow — Ancient Wilts, vol. I., 201 ; 

 Archceologia, vol. xlii., 505; together with three similar plates, 

 from an armlet (?) and eleven pendant-shaped beads from a 

 necklace of the same material. £11. 



,, 131. Fifty round beads, twenty barrel-shaped and six others, with ten 



