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NOTES ON AN EXCAVATION, ETC. 
shops and offices are in course of erection. The writer is indebted 
to Councillor W. H. Birch, who was in charge of the excavations, 
for affording the facilities for observation. 
LIST OF ARTICLES FOUND AND NOW IN 
THE MUSEUM. 
METAL. 
Iron axe head. 
Brass chape of sword sheath 
Iron horse's bit. 
Bronze pin. 
Curved iron hook, socketed (ni inches). 
Three iron knives with hafts for handles, 
6f, 6, 7, 5§ inches. 
Bronze 2-pronged fork, with socketed 
haft for handle 3 inches in length, 
prongs 2 inches. 
Brass mounting, 5^ inches in length, 
with conventionalised zoomorphic 
heads, and with small iron rivets. 
Small button or whorl of lead. 
A small lump of lead. 
Of Uncertain Date. 
Two horse shoes. 
Triangle of iron, 11 inch limbs. 
Sickle blade, ii| inches in length. 
One bone needle, 6-f inches, point 
slightly broken. 
Two needles with eyes, 3J and^4 inches 
in length. 
Bone pin with eye, 3I inch long, orna¬ 
mented by transverse and diagonal 
lines. 
Bone skate, 6J inches long. 
Two combs (the larger 8^ ins. in length) 
ornamented with linear markings. 
Hoof bone of small pony. 
Skull of pony. 
BONE, 
Skull of small cow. 
Four boar tusks. 
Eleven tines and one burr of horn. 
Two goat horns. 
Piece of perforated horn ij in. in length. 
Part of skull of goose. 
Goose egg (at depth oTrtrTEet). 
Disc of bone ornamented with two con¬ 
centric series of small incised circles, 
probably for playing the game of 
“Nine men’s morris.” 
WOOD. 
Two small mallets or malls. Wooden box, overlaid with bone strips. 
Paddle, 18 ins. by 6 in., charred by fire. One hazel nut. 
Wooden peg with head. 2§ in. in length. 
LEATHER, 
Two pairs leather shoes, full size. 
Two fragmentary shoes. 
Two children’s shoes. 
Two knife sheaths, one of which is 
ornamented by a series of double 
criss-cross lines. 
A leather object, 18 ins. by 7 ins., of 
uncertain use, made from a single 
sheet of leather, bent and sewn 
together along the edge. 
MINERAL. 
Three perforated whorls of coarse 
earthenware. 
Three pieces unworked amber. 
One small circular perforated button 
of amber. 
Two handles of coarse earthenware 
vessel. 
Two sharpening hones. 
One small fragment of Samian ware. 
