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Identifier: surreyarchaeolo29surr (find matches)
Title: Surrey archaeological collections
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Surrey Archaeological Society
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Publisher: Guildford (etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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hay, and the hard sand all roundwas found, on careful examination, to be undisturbed,so that the objects may be presumed to constitute theentire deposit. Ten vessels can be distinguished, thesmaller being in good or fair condition, and now re-stored to shape with a little solder and wire; but thefour larger and thinner specimens have suffered severely.By a fortunate accident the profiles of all can be de-termined, and the figures accompanying a detaileddescription show the section on the left and elevation 1 A preliminary note on the discovery is printed in Vol. XXVII ofthe Societys Collections, p. 149. FOUND AT WOTTON IN 1914. on the right, all reduced from diagrams of natural size.The restoration of the remainder will be proceeded withon conservative lines, and due prominence given toa hoard that now seems to have had more than oneparallel, not too well described, in the past. Before proceeding to describe in order the bowls thatmay be divided into three groups, and were apparently
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Fig. 1. BRONZE VESSEL, WOTTON used for measuring time and for other purposes, it willbe convenient to discuss the bronze vessel of frying-panform (Fig. 1) that stands alone and calls for anotherexplanation. It is of stout metal with base between anoblong and oval, and sides bent outwards but not farfrom vertical. At the ends the side gradually rises b2 4 BRONZE VESSELS OF THE EARLY IRON AGE 1*6 in. vertically above the bottom, the normal heightbeing 1*2 in. The base measures outside 95 in. by8*2 in. and is practically flat. All that is left of thehandle is a plate 1*7 in. long with a vertical iron rivetand a pair of bronze ears bent over to form a socket andpierced by a stout iron pin still in position, and partlyembedded in a ferruginous mass identified by Mr. Lyellas sand cemented by iron rust. A remarkable parallel that clears up more than onedoubtful point is to be found in Archceologia, XVI, 364,PI. LXIX. In 1807 Mr. Thomas Walford exhibited nine thin culinary vessels of copper (

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