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Dorset, together with large bodkins also of ivory, and which were 
probably used to fasten together the coarse garments of the ancient 
Britons. It is a curious coincidence also, that he has found in a 
barrow near Warminster, at Cop Head Hill, the shell of a nerite, and 
some ivory beads, which were laid by the skeletons of an infant and 
an adult female, apparently its mother *. 
That ivory rings were at that time used as armlets, is probable 
from the circumstance of similar rings having also been found by Sir 
Richard Hoare in these same barrows; and from a passage in Strabo, 
lib. 4, which Mr. Knight has pointed out to me, in which, speaking 
of the small taxes which it was possible to levy on the Britons, he 
specifies their imports to be very insignificant, consisting chiefly of 
ivory armlets and necklaces, Ligurian stones, glass vessels, and other 
such like trifles. The custom of burying with their possessors the 
ornaments and chief utensils of the deceased, is evident from the 
remains of this kind discovered every where in the ancient barrows; 
and this may explain the circumstance of our finding with the bones 
of the woman at Paviland the ivory rods, and rings, and nerite shells, 
which she had probably made use of during life. I am at a loss to 
conjecture what could have been the object of collecting the red 
oxyde of iron that seems to have been thrown over the body when 
* A long and rude shaped pin made of bone, of very high antiquity, being of the 
size and length of a large woooden skewer, and very similar to the smaller fragments of 
ivory from Paviland, has recently been found on Foxcomb hill, near Oxford; and my 
friend the Rev. J. J. Conybeare has discovered a hone bodkin, nearly of the same size, 
among the remains of the British or Belgic settlements which he has lately been tracing 
out with great success on the flat summits called Charmy Down, Banner Down, Salisbury, 
and Claverton Down, in the immediate neighbourhood of Bath. 
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