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9. Was blank. This is the hut with the drain-like cavities under the floor, referred to in the general description. Entrance faces west, 3 ft. wide; wall 6 ft. high.

10. This rendered a bronze fibula, plated with gold, highly ornamented (see Fig. 6), a much-corroded iron ring, with a diameter of 2 ins., and another ribbed melon-shaped bead of blue-glazed porcellanic paste (see Coloured Plate). Entrance faces north-west, 2 ft. wide; wall 4 ft. high.

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Fig. 6.-Gold-plated Bronze Fibula (full size). Hut No. 10.

11. A little charcoal only was seen in the floor of this hut. Entrance faces south-west, 4 ft. wide; wall ruined.

12. A small piece of the rim of a pot and a little charcoal. Entrance faces north-west; wall 5 ft.

13. Some small fragments of thin red pottery, slightly ornamented. Also a tiny blue bead of glass. Entrance faces north; wall 6 ft. high.

14. A piece of corroded iron, with a perforated wing or projection (? remains of a strike-a-light). See Fig. 8. Entrance faces north; wall 5 ft. high.

15. Blank; in a ruinous condition.

16. Two small pieces of black pottery; in a ruinous condition.

17. Some pebbles only; in a ruinous condition.

18. Some pebbles only; in a ruinous condition.

19. A few fragments of bone and a lump of much-corroded iron. The northern portion of the wall of this hut was much better built than usual, probably because of its comparative isolation. Owing to ruin of wall, entrance could not be located. As wall stood, it was 4 ft. high.

Fig. 7.-Fragments of Bone Comb (full size). Hut No. 23.

22. Blank. Entrance facing south. This hut contained a recess in the wall, covered by a lintel, forming a cupboard.

in.

23. Fragments of a bone comb, 14 ins. wide, the teeth long. It has originally been strengthened on one or both faces, with a cross-bar riveted on with iron pins, the bar itself, of which fragments remain, being ornamented with circles containing dots.1 Entrance facing north-west; wall 5 ft. high. (See Fig. 7.)

1 For a similar comb, see the Catalogue of the National Museum of Antiquities at Edinburgh, p. 232.

24. A few fragments of bone.

25. A perforated pebble (? natural perforation), and a piece of much-corroded iron. A small semicircular hut, low walls, entrance uncertain.

26. Yielded an iron nail. Entrance uncertain; wall 5 ft. high.

87. A few sling-stones only; a long hut; entrance west.

88. Blank. wall 4 ft. high.

Entrance north-west; in a ruinous condition

HOLE

TOP

Fig. 8.-Iron Object (half size). Hut No. 14.

89. An iron implement, like a bill-hook, much corroded. This was found in the débris, about 9 ins. above the true floor (see Fig. 9). A similar object was found by Mr. Bulleid in the Glastonbury Lake Village. Entrance faces south-west; wall

4 ft. high.

90. Blank. Entrance faces west; wall 4 ft. high.

92. Blank. Entrance faces north-east; wall 4 ft. high.

50. There was no rubble filling in this hut. The floor was on the clay, and this was studded with fragments of charcoal. The wall was 7 ft. high, and must originally have been even higher, for the hut was choked with 3 ft. of débris from it. In this débris, 1 ft. 6 ins. above the clay floor, part of the bottom of an earthenware pot was found.

Fig. 9.-Iron Bill-hook (half-size). Hut No. 89.

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