Surrey archaeological collections . ecovered are two fragments of another vesselof similar, but more heavily gritted, ware. The loom-weights had been employed as voussoirs to construct —VOL. XLIII. 113 I ii4 NOTES. the vault, but, being of too sharp an angle to fit the required curve,appear to have been packed with mud to fill the gaps between eachof them. Traces of this mud, baked to the hardness of a mortar,are still to be seen adhering in places to the one loom-weight examined(PL XIII). The loom-weights are pierced for suspension at all threecorners, and have the unusual feature of a
Surrey archaeological collections . ecovered are two fragments of another vesselof similar, but more heavily gritted, ware. The loom-weights had been employed as voussoirs to construct —VOL. XLIII. 113 I ii4 NOTES. the vault, but, being of too sharp an angle to fit the required curve,appear to have been packed with mud to fill the gaps between eachof them. Traces of this mud, baked to the hardness of a mortar,are still to be seen adhering in places to the one loom-weight examined(PL XIII). The loom-weights are pierced for suspension at all threecorners, and have the unusual feature of a four-petal rosetteornament on each triangular face. This decoration appears to havebeen formed with the thumb, by pressing it into the wet claywhen the objects were being made. One angle of each weight isheavily blackened, bearing out the statement of the workmen asto the position in which they were found. They are of two sizes,that figured being one of the larger and measuring 6 in. x 6 in. x6 in., the corners being rounded FIG. I. EARLY IRON AGE POT FROM ST. MARTHAS HILL, OVEN SITE. (J actual size) Pottery ; Fig. i. This vessel is of a greyish, slightly gritted ware, with a red-brownsurfacing inside and out, the surfaces being of smooth soapytexture. It is hand-made. [The two separate fragments, not figured, are redder in colour,and without the smooth surface. Also, more heavily gritted.] In form and ware this vessel is similar to some from Park Brow,Sussex, in the British Museum, but the shoulder below the tall rimis not so pronounced as it is with those from Park Brow, whichhave a sharp angle at the junction of rim and shoulder. Apparently the find registers a new site of Iron Age A occupationfor this part of Surrey, and suggests the advisability of some further,more scientific, investigations being undertaken in this vicinity. Since writing the above note, I have been able to inspect thefragmentary urn shown on Fig. 2. This urn, now in private pos-session, was foun
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