iron buckles suited for strong harness, cutting or piercing implements, and a variety of objects of iron, have been dug up at various times.
Pruning hooks.
Ornaments (fig. 10) and small works in bronze (fig. 8), tweezers (fig. 9), brooches, both of the antique bow form (fig. 11), and of the flat circular shape (fig. 12), the acus being attached to the reverse side, small buckles, and tags of straps or belts, indicate the successive occupation of the site by various races of mankind. Some of these appear to be of late Roman workmanship . Three of the rudely formed flat beads, measuring in diameter about 114 inches, two formed of baked clay (fig. 13), the other of bone turned in the lathe (fig. 14), occurred amongst these remains: similar objects have been repeatedly found in spots occupied in early times. Another piece of bone, here represented, is formed with a mitre-shaped head (fig. 15), and may possibly have been a chess-man; it is, however, ornamented with the small concentric circles which appear very commonly on objects assigned to the British period. With them may be noticed a flat circular piece of lead (fig. 16), resembling a weight; it is marked with a cross between four pellets, and weighs nearly three ounces; also a token or
those which were found at Woodperry. Sir Samuel Meyrick considers this missile as having been used during the wars of the Roses. Skelton's Goodrich Armoury, I. pl. xvi, xxxiv.
