. Surrey archaeological collections . eohgia, XXXVI, 454,PI. XXXVIII. The existing fragments give a diameterof about 6*3 in., but there is no trace of the angle andnothing to show the original diameter; the centre is alsomissing, so that the perforation is not certain, but theembossed design leaves an appropriate space for objects found with it are of considerable interest 10 BRONZE VESSELS OF THE EARLY IRON AGE in themselves, including enamelled ferrets and otherhorse-furniture, bronze ferrules or terminals, a disc em-bossed with a deer-like animal, a Roman bronze lampwith crescent han
. Surrey archaeological collections . eohgia, XXXVI, 454,PI. XXXVIII. The existing fragments give a diameterof about 6*3 in., but there is no trace of the angle andnothing to show the original diameter; the centre is alsomissing, so that the perforation is not certain, but theembossed design leaves an appropriate space for objects found with it are of considerable interest 10 BRONZE VESSELS OF THE EARLY IRON AGE in themselves, including enamelled ferrets and otherhorse-furniture, bronze ferrules or terminals, a disc em-bossed with a deer-like animal, a Roman bronze lampwith crescent handle, and a Roman coin of Faustinathe Elder ( 138-41), which at least gives a limitingdate for the deposit if not for its component parts, ofwhich three others may have belonged to a water-clockequipment. There is also the rim, with fragments ofthe side, of a small bowl made of thin bronze, withan outside diameter of 55 in. No. 2 (Fig. 6). A large cauldron-shaped vessel of thinbronze, now in two large pieces fairly well preserved,. Fig. 6. BRONZE VESSEL WITH IRON RINGS,WOTTON (1). comprising the neck and base; the latter has a bronzeplug with washer in the centre and another plug an inchdistant. Astride the rim is a heavy iron band overlap-ping the bronze to the extent of 05 in. and being itself1*4 in. deep. At opposite points outside between therim and shoulder are traces of an upright iron band,evidently to fix the loops that held the iron ring-handles,which survive and are circular in section 0*5 in. thick and55 in. in diameter outside. One of the iron rings is stillin its loop, which forms the head of a T-shaped iron FOUND AT WOTTON IN 1914. 11 mount, the arms evidently passing round the neck of thevessel below the iron rim, as is clear from the corres-ponding iron mount with one arm 8 in. long. The onesurviving loop is moulded in a manner recalling thebronze handle-loops of Bronze Age cauldrons. Themeasurements are fairly certain, as the two large por-tions can be adjus
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