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13 to 16. Bronze armilke. 13 found in the bed of the Thames. 
Armillge are found made of gold or silver as well as bronze. 
Fibulae or brooches of all three metals likewise occur. 
17. Bronze fibula, originally enamelled, found at Alderbury, Wilts, 
in 1862. 
18. Bronze fibula, found at Winterborne, Wilts, in 1863. 
19 to 22. Bronze fibulae, found near Cambridge. 
23. Bronze needle, ditto. 
24. Bronze fibula, enamelled, found near the Salisbury Cemetery in 
1863, deposited by Mr. Clench . 
25. Bronze fibula. Brodie Coll. 
The objects numbered 26 to 43 were all found in 1863 in a large 
earthwork at Wylye, Wilts, and are deposited by Dr. H. P. Black- 
more . A large quantity of fragmentary pottery (Romano-British), 
found at the same time and place, is exhibited in the collection of 
pottery. 
26 to 30. Bronze buckle and other objects. 
31 to 33. Bronze fibulae. Attention is called to 32, which is of 
unusual form, and has been enamelled. 
34 to 41. Roman coins. Same find. 
42 and 43. Whetstones. 
44. Fragment of bronze casting. (Qy. Roman.) 
45. Handle of knife, from Panticapoeum, deposited by Dr. H . P. 
Blackmore. 
46. Two specimens of the so-called “ Kimmeridge Coal Money,” 
deposited by Miss Hedger . 
These objects were, doubtless, never used as money. They are 
found in two little valleys in the Isle of Purbeck, only divided from 
each other by a ridge of hill, the one opening seaward into Kimme¬ 
ridge Bay, and the other into Worthbarrow Bay. The “coal 
money” is found at depths but rarely exceeding 18 inches below 
the surface of the soil. The material employed is a bituminous 
shale, which burns freely, and of which an extensive bed exists on 
the coast. There is good reason for believing that these objects 
are the refuse pieces thrown aside after rings and other ornaments 
had been turned on the lathe. Associated with the “ coal money,” 
fragments of the shale—the raw material—showing tool marks and 
figures drawn with compasses are frequently found. It is supposed, 
from the character of the fragmentary pottery scattered through 
the soil, that the manufacture of amulets, beads, and the like must 
have been carried on by the Romanized Britons in these remote 
vales of Dorsetshire. This belief is strengthened by the discovery 
of highly polished armillse of Kimmeridge shale in the burial-place 
of the Romano-British settlement of Durnovaria (Dorchester), 
whilst the pottery found there agrees in character with the frag¬ 
ments from Kimmeridge. Two complete vessels of Kimmeridge 
