TAVELIN-HEAD of Chert, of Palaeolithic Type, Length 3|Ins
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aumtioniB to t&e a^useum. From January 1st to December 31st, 1915. I. ARCHEOLOGY. (1). STONE IMPLEMENTS. TAVELIN-HEAD of chert, of Palaeolithic type, length 3|ins. Found by the donor in the Yarty Stream, Otterford parish, Blackdown Hills, Somerset, 1915. Pre- sented by Mrs. ST. GEORGE GRAY. ovoid of of Palaeolithic Large implement chert, type ; measuring 6|ins. by 5ins. Found by the donor in the Yarty Stream (as above). Presented by LIONEL ST. G. GRAY. Flint flake, length 29mm., collected by the donor in a grass field above high-water mark and opposite the submerged forest on the shore at Porlock. (Proc. Som. Arch. Soc., xvm, 26-31 Presented the Rev. i, ; LIV, ii, 9). by GEORGE HORNER. Part of a large whetstone, worked on four surfaces, length 4|ins. Found by the donor at Old Burrow Camp, Exmoor, near one of the cuttings made in 1912 by Dr. Tapp and Mr. Gray. (Trans. Devon Assoc., XLIV, 703-717). Presented by Dr. ERIC GARDNER. Four Palaeolithic stone implements found in 1915 in a gravel quarry on the top of Pauncefoot Hill, about 1 mile from Romsey, Hants, along the road to Ringwood and about the level of the 100-ft. contour-line. Presented by Dr. C. BALFOUR STEWART. in Net-sinker the form of a stone ball, max. diam. 2ins. ; three stone axes in an of manufacture chipped early stage ; and a polished stone axe, length 3|ins. Found in ploughing on the donor's farm, Mahakipawa, north part of South Island, New Zealand. Presented by Mr. W. J. CULLEN. Additions to the Museum. xlv (2). OTHER ARCHAEOLOGICAL REMAINS. Three bronze fibulae, of the Roman period, found in Haydon Quarry, Kilmersdon, the largest and the smallest found in 1913. The third was worn in the front of the cap of the quarryman who found it, for three years. The brooches are as follows : (a). Fibula, length 88mm., the pin broken (now it is a flat semicircular repaired) ; covering the hinge and projecting beyond plate with to is for catch- engraved ornament, attached which an eyelet suspension ; the is of is orna- plate very large for the size of the brooch ; the bottom the catch mented. (6). Brooch, length 71mm., which shows the blending of Late-Celtic with flat ex- Roman art ; it has a in the middle of the there is a hinged pin ; bow pansion ornamented with a punched design. (This brooch is similar in general outline to one found on Ham Hill, Proc. Som. Arch. Soc., LVI, ii, plate facing p. 55 fig. 7). (). Small fibula, length 47mm., with moulded bow, the summit of which is ornamented with a depressed design, which may, at one time, have been filled with it for enamel ; at the head has an eyelet suspension. Presented by Dr. A. BULLEID, F.S.A. The following archaeological remains from the collection of the late Mr. Francis A. Knight : (a). Large rim piece of hand- made pottery found at Dolbury Camp, parish of Churchill, Mendip Hills, 1905. (6). Rim piece of hand-made pottery ornamented with incised triangles filled with crossed parallel lines found at 1878. It is of ; Dolbury Camp, Late-Celtic " " type, and is figured in Knight's Heart of Mendip (1915), p. 201. (c). Small earthenware crucible, of grey clay, height max. diam. of a iHins., Hins. ; globular form, having rounded base it is a little the ; perforated below lip ; Roman, found " at Charterhouse-on-Mendip. Figured in Heart of Mendip," " p. 513, and mentioned in The Glastonbury Lake-village," 1 I, 303. Presented by Mrs. F. A. KNIGHT. Leaden bulla of Calixtus III, A.D. 1455-1458 ; found in the excavations at Glastonbury Abbey, 1911. Figured and de- scribed in Proc. Som. Arch. Soc., LX, ii, 41-45. Deposited on loan by the Trustees of Glastonbury Abbey. 1. A small earthenware crucible, of circular plan and having a spout, said to at in soil be Roman, found a great depth the under a chimney, Fore Street Hill, Exeter, 1873, is exhibited in Exeter Museum. Vol. LXI (Fourth Series, Vol. I), Part I. D xlvi Additions to the Museum. The following Antiquities from Ham Hill, South Somerset, found by Mr. A. V. Cornish. (Most of the objects were found on the Northern of the Hill a full record is in the Spur ; kept MS. catalogue) : Amber. Globular bead, diam. 20mm. (in bad state of preservation). Bronze Objects. Six scales of a lorica, conjoined, alternately tinned have double at sides at ; they perforations both and are 24 -5mm. in and 18mm. in max. width. top ; they length Small key-ring. Part of the flat bow and catch-plate of a fibula. Needle, length 80mm. (3|ins.), with an enlargement for the large oval eye. (Similar Late-Celtic needles were found in see Vol. I of the Glastonbury Lake-village ; work on the subject, Plates xlii and xliv). Piece of wire of square section, with an enlargement at one end. Iron shouldered with Objects. Large pin ring-head ; part of shaft and point missing. Bent needle, broken through the eye. Round-headed rivet or bolt, with a diamond-shaped plate at the smaller end, which may perhaps have moved on a thread. Javelin-head, with socket and rivet, length Srains. Stylus with flattened end and of heavy make, length Sfins. Spindle-whorl.- -Whorl of baked clay, diam. 28mm. Antler, etc. Crown of two points and beam of roe-deer antler (bearing various knife-cuts at the burr). Worked piece of red-deer antler, length 5ins., knife-cut at the butt- end, and notched and bored longitudinally in the middle. Part of an immature antler of red-deer with knife-cuts. Part of a shed antler of roe-deer, burnished. Two tusks (one of boar) and a goat's horn with knife-cuts. Miscellaneous. Two fragments of black pottery, orna- mented disc with ; pottery large perforation ; large Ham Hill stone chert disc, perforated ; hammerstone, and parts of two whetstones. Butt-end of a large stone celt, length 3|ins. (1914). Large flint scraper, dug up in Odcombe Rectory Garden, 1915. Deposited on loan by Mr. A. V. CORNISH. Sling-bullet, or sling-pellet, of baked clay, pointed at both ends and having a triangular cross-section. It is slightly Additions to the Museum. xlvii chipped, but its weight was originally about 490 grains. Found with many others lying close together, 3 feet below the surface, at Derry's Wood. Wonersh, near Guildford. 1909. Their exact date is uncertain. Four of them are figured in Surrey Archceol. Collections, xxn, 199. Presented by Mr. J. M. COURAGE. A few shards of pottery (Bronze Age type down to mediaeval) picked up by the donor on the line of the Wansdyke all surface finds. Presented by Mr. A. E. HUDD, F.S.A. Globular vase of thin terra-cotta with a pair of small handles at the mouth. The upper part of the vessel and the rounded bottom are encircled in relief by parallel ribbings slight ; Tins. in a said to height ; max. diam. 8|ins. Found tomb, be Phrenician. at Sidon, Palestine, and dated by the late Rev. Greville Chester as about B.C. 700. Given to the donor by Dr. Selah Merrill, U.S.A. Consul in Jerusalem. Presented by the Rev. C. T. WILSON. II. ETHNOGRAPHY. " Harpsichord bearing the inscription, Abraham et Josephus Kirckman. Londoni fecerunt. 1790." The name Kirckman, Kirchmann, or Kirkman, was borne by a family of Harp- sichord, and subsequently Pianoforte makers, who came to England from Germany about 1740. The tirm continued their factory for the making of pianofortes until 1896, when it dissolved. The Kirckman Harpsichords were made on the Flemish model, with a compass of five octaves, and were noted both in Kngland and on the Continent for their excellence. Deposited on loan by Mr. HAROLD A. JEBOULT. Seventeen buttons, Somerset, mostly military. Eleven military badges chiefly of the Somerset Light Infantry and the Somerset Yeomanry. Presented by Mr. C. TITE. " Brass face of a grandfather's clock, inscribed C. Musgrave, " Taunton late XVIII Presented the Rev. ; Century. by Dr. S. J. M. PRICE. Three "club-brasses," (1) Ornate javelin, height lljins., pierced with the letters T.C.F.s. (Templecombe Friendly Ornate on a Society) ; (2) javelin, height 12fins., engraved xlviii Additions to the Museum. collar WINCANTON FRIENDLY SOCIETY; (3) a ball sur- mounted by a solid crown, the encircling band inscribed STUR MINSTER FRIENDLY SOCIETY, height 6ins. Pre- sented by Mr. F. G. SAGE. Blue silk banner, with yellow tassels, of the West Monkton Club in one of the lower corners an embroidered ; monogram, in the corner the date the W.M.c ; opposite 1880, when banner was worked by Miss Meade-King. The club was established previously to 1855. Deposited on loan by Miss MEADE-KING, 3, Haines Hill Terrace, Taunton. which have never been used Two mantraps ; recently turned out of old stores at Messrs. Fisher and Sons, Taunton ; they were manufactured about 1840, and their price was 18s. each. Presented by Mr. W. H. FISHER. White watered silk sunshade, with collapsible handle of carved Victorian. This sunshade to ivory ; early belonged Mrs. Phelips, mother of Mr. W. R. Phelips, of Montacute. Presented by Mrs. W. R. PHELIPS. of silk Brown silk sunshade Bag purse ; early XIX Century. with handle Victorian. Presented Miss collapsible ; early by TALBOT, Stoke St. Gregory. Model of a coach, length 16|ins. without horses. The figures have china faces and are dressed in the costume of mid- Victorian times. Third of the quarter XIX Century ; formerly used by the donor as a toy.