ANTIQUITIES FOUND AT WOODPERRY, OXON.
119 Amongst the very few fictile articles which had wholly escaped damage was an earthen pan, (literally such,) found nearly above the spot where the Altar may be supposed to have stood, and carefully covered over with a piece of ashlar stone : it was a little injm'ed by the workman's pick-axe, but the situation, the size, and evident care with which it had been deposited, caused much to be expected from the contents ; yet upon removing the covering they were found to be nothing but earth ; neither was there the slightest reason, as far as could be judged, to suspect any dishonesty on the part of those who had discovered it. The pan was turned in a lathe, of very thin red ware, not glazed, except at the bottom of the inside, similar in shape to those now in common use, and strengthened externally toAvards the upper rim by nine ornaments of a fillet pattern, running upwards at equal intervals, Avith a greater projection toAvards the top, but dying into the substance of the vessel at about one third from its bottom. The diameter of the top of the pan AA^as 15^ inches, of the bottom lOf, and the depth 8^. The stone Avhicli covered it Avas 15^ inches by 14^, and 3i thick. ArroAv-heads of considerable variety in form and dimension, have from time to time been found at Woodperry (fig. 1.) Amongst them may be no- ticed one of simple conical shape, measuring in length 1 f inches ; it Avas formed of bone, and rudely orna- mented Avitli incised lines, crossing each other fret- Avise. Tavo similar arroAV or bolt-heads formed of iron (figs. 2, 3), tapering gradu- ally to a blunt point, Avere also discovered, and other examples of the same metal, Bone Arrow head. some fashioned Avith a flat triangular blade (fig. 4), not barbed, and others furnished Avith barbs of unusual length (figs. 5, 0, 7), y'&i. Irou Arrow-heada. in one histance measuring about If inches' Several large
- 111 the armoury at Goodricli Court arc men of the ancient British arrow," dis-
preservcd two iron piles of arrows, with covered at the base of Clifford's Tower, four-sided points, and an " unique speci- York, the head resembling in form one of