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comb, all made of bone ;* six bronze pins, one pin four inches 
in length, with a flat head the size of a shilling, and plated ; 
two bone needles, six bone spoons, and several fragments of 
others, the handles rudely carved and the bowls having a 
hole in the centre as if to allow the escape of fluids ; remains 
of two knives, one key, pieces of bronze in a half- finished 
state for a fibula, two bone arrow heads, a bone implement, 
probably the guard from the handle of a dagger ; the head 
of an adze of trap precisely similar in form and size to one in 
the Museum of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 
brought from Tahiti ;f the canine teeth of an animal, 
probably a wolf, perforated, as I presume, for a necklace, 
bracelet, or charm ;J as also shells of Nerita littoralis, and 
Turbo littoreus, perforated for a similar purpose ; a single 
valve of a species of Cardium, probably a worn specimen of 
muricatum ; || various articles in bronze and bone, the uses of 
which are unknown ; fragments of glass of different qualities, 
glass rings, probably armlets, glass and jet beads, pottery of 
the ordinary Roman coarse ware, and the red or Samian ware 
ornamented with various devices of birds, fish, &c, two 
* A specimen, precisely similar to the first of these combs, in the possession 
of Edward Hailstone, Esq., F. S. A., of Horton Hall, was found amongst the 
accumulated stones and rubbish in St. Leonard's Priory, York, and pro- 
nounced by Warsaae, the eminent Danish archaeologist, to be a Norse comb. 
For figures of these, and various other articles, see Plates 1 and 2. 
+ This was exhibited by Mr. O'Callaghan at the Meeting of the British 
Association at Aberdeen, and excited much interest. 
J Bruce, in his History of the Roman Wall from the Tyne to the Solway, 
figures a fine canine tooth of the bear, perforated in a similar manner, found 
amongst other antiquities during the excavations. 
j| Personal ornaments made of the same objects from Africa and Tahiti, 
are in the museum of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 
and it is worth bearing in mind as connected with the circumstance of 
the occurrence of the shells, that with the skeleton of a female found in 
Paviland Cave numerous shells of the same species were observed ; and also 
that Sir Kichard Colt Hoare, discovered in a Barrow, near Warminster, the 
shell of a nerite, and ivory beads laid by the side of the skeletons of an infant, 
and an adult female presumed to be its mother. 
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