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NOTES ON AN EXCAVATION, ETC. 
The ‘brass mounting’ mentioned in the list of objects is interest¬ 
ing as shewing two very highly conventionalised animal (or bird) 
heads standing out laterally from it. As the rest of the article 
of which it was originally a part has entirely perished, it is difficult 
to offer any conjecture as to its nature. This may also be said of 
the small wooden spatula-like object figured between the axe-head 
and pronged fork on plate iii. 
The remaining objects are interesting, but scarcely lend them¬ 
selves to any detailed description. Where any ornamentation is 
present, e.g. upon the comb and the bone pin, this is of the usual 
Norse type of shallow inscribed lines or circles. 
