2(5 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 191S 
silks as was never before seen in Britain. Total length 25 mm. 
(ring 10 mm.) 
The Tweezers (another toilet and personal instrument) are 
imperfect, one limb having disappeared. Length 65 mm. 
There are four bronze finger rings of varying sizes (1.40, 
2.35, 3.25, 4.26 cm. diameter), showing that they were worn 
on different fingers, and no doubt these also were gilded. 
Bronze, therefore, was still very precious at the date in question. 
There is no doubt that bronze occurs far more frequently in 
the tribes of Southern Britain, and especially S.E. near the 
Continent. 
We now come to the famous Necklet, which again greatly 
resembles certain necklets in the St. Germain Museum, near 
Paris ; and which came from Gaulish cemeteries of the Marne, 
and from Ciry-Salsogne on the Aisne, and at least one found 
in Wiltshire. 
The discs, or beads, of which it is composed vary greatly 
in size ; observing an uncertain graduation, the largest or 
central discs attaining as much as 50 mm. by 20 in thickness. 
Seventeen of these are of red Sicilian amber, probably 
derived from the slopes of Etna, while only two very small 
ones are of Baltic pale amber. Two (also very small ones) 
are of greenish glass and seem scarcely belonging to this necklet. 
There are besides two large jet ones and one of grey marble, 
probably Purbeck. 
From what has come to my knowledge since the days of the 
find, I should be inclined to believe that the whole of the 
objects then found is not yet complete. This, of course, may 
well be the case. For we are told that Joseph Barnfield, the 
quarryman and trader, carried some of the objects about on 
his person for months after he had found them, before disposing 
of them to the Gloucester Museum. In 1902 several interesting 
vitreous patterned beads and one of amber (since polished) were 
brought to Hayles by another Barnfield, who had also obtained 
them from Birdlip. These he offered with some recent coins, 
of no account, for a trifle to the late Miss Edwards, the church- 
warden, who then lived there ; and by my advice they were 
secured. On submitting them to scrutiny, it was possible to 
