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that has been found is a pottery aquamanile. These
jugs were copied from those of bronze which date from the late twelfth
to the fourteenth century.
The few other objects that have turned up include keys,
knives, nails and rings, bronze strap ends, scraps of brass and copper,
a mass of melted lead, and two well-made spindle whorls. Seven of the
finds are illustrated on Plate II. The Tertiary sandstone was found an
efficient material for the larger hones. One imported schist hone has
been found. Broken tiles when chipped into rough disks came in useful as
pieces for such a game as shovel-board. Their average diameter is from 1
5/8 ins. to 2 1/4 ins.
DESCRIPTION OF PLATE OF ARTICLES
FROM STONOR.
ALL FULL SIZE.
1. Small bronze hanging badge ornamented with a chequer
pattern.
2. A bone tag or piercer with a drilled hour-glass shaped hole at the
distal end.
3. Flat bronze case with riveted-on cover. The loop for suspension
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4. Broken length of oval bronze with a
baluster band, 2 5/16 in. long.
5. Enigmatic fragment of a medieval openwork bronze ornament, 13th or
14th C.
6. Small iron key with ring bow.
7. Small bladed knife with long tang.
APPENDIX.
In Part I of this paper (A.C., LIII (1940), 70) an account was
given of the composition of the Stonar shingle bank. Among the flint
boulders and pebbles, its natural constituent, occur certain derived
materials from the beds at and above the junction with the chalk to the
north. These are tabular and green-coated flint, indurated lime-cemented
sandstone, silicified wood and cemented chalk breccia. But far more
interesting than any of these are the erratics of quartz, quartzite, and
igneous and altered rocks which are far travelled. Their occurrence
presupposes an antiquity for this isolated deposit far greater than the
coastal beaches. The attached Report deals with certain of these
foreigners and their composition; and suggests one stage in their
origin.
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