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in diameter and as thin almost as a piece of note-paper. In the small 
specimen, fig. 6, Plate xxiv., the red enamel in the rounded ends is still 
perfect. There are also safety-pin brooches, one of which is shown in 
fig. 2, PL xxiY. ; tweezers, fig. 7 ; a small bronze key of curions pattern, 
with split instead of pipe shown in fig. 10 ; shoe-buckles ; studs, with 
nail-like projections of about an inch in length and terminating in an 
eye, supposed to have belonged to a harness; a letter p of bronze 
about three quarters of an inch in length with similar nail -like projec- 
tion terminating in an eye ; bronze needles one of which is shown in 
fig. 8, Plate XXIV., bodkins, sleevelinks, one pair of which had the 
compass and square and other masonic emblems engraved on them ; a 
bronze or brass ring, spindle-whorls, and beads of stone, glass beads 
ornamented with yellow enamel or paste and spiral threads of glass of 
various colours ; clay pipes of the kind known as Danes' pipes," pieces 
■of chain formed of thin wire besides some other articles. One object is 
shown in fig. 9, Plate xxiv., which Mr. Olphert describes as a pipe 
picker. The broad part is about as thin as a worn sixpenny piece and 
is quite flat and without an edge at any part. All these objects were 
■found over an extent of about eighty acres of sand. The bronze pins 
and brooches are beautifully patinated, and the majority of them 
are highly ornamented. Some, as figs. 3, 6, 7, and 9, in Plate xxiv., 
are made of white-metal, which I was informed by a jeweller was not 
silver. It patinates like bronze, and therefore I suppose it must be 
the white bronze which is called findruine. The pins and other 
rticles were not found by Mr. Olphert himself ; they were picked up 
on various occasions by his tenants and workmen, who brought them 
0 him, and he either purchased them or gave the finder a small 
eward. 
Mr. Olphert took me to the beach where all these objects had been 
procured, which I found to be a large extent of bare sand studded in 
places with hut-sites similar to those on other sandhills I have described. 
There were the usual hearths with black matter underneath, full of 
shells and rounded and broken quartzite pebbles, some of which were 
tracked from having been in the fire, but others were not burned, and 
lad evidently been split into sharp-edged pieces by hammering. Those 
][uartzite flakes and spalls must have been intentionally made, and used 
!or cutting and scraping, though there was no evidence of dressing 
i5uch as we find on flint implements. I picked up two flint pebbles 
fvhich were split or chipped, but I saw no flakes or implements of that 
naterial. Some hammer-stones were found, the best of which I gave 
;o Mr. Olphert, as such implements had not previously attracted his 
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