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ANTIQUITIES FOUND AT WOODPERRY, OXON. iron buckles suited for strong harness, cutting or piercing implements, and a variety of objects of iron, have been dug up at various times. Ornaments (fig. 10) and small works in bronze (fig. 8), tweezers (fig. 9), brooches, both of the antique bow form (fig. 1 1), and of the flat circular shape (fig. 12), the acusheing attached to the reverse side, small buckles, and tags of straps or belts, indicate the successive occu- pation 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 1| inches, two formed of baked clay (fig. 13), the other of bone turned in the lathe (fig. 14), occmTed amongst these remains : similar objects have been repeatedly found in spots occupied in early times. An- other piece of bone, here re- presented, is formed with a mitre-shaped head (fig. 15), and may possibly have been a chess-man ; it is, however, pmnins books. 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 tliis missile as havinj' heen used diirinjjr the wars of the Roses. Skelton's Goodrich Armoury, I. pi. xvi, .xxxiv.