Two very massive penannular armlets, formed of rounded bronze fully ½ inch in diameter, and weighing about 12 ozs. each, were found with an agate bead and a spindle-whorl in a tumulus near Peninnis Head, in the Scilly Isles.[1481] One of these is shown in Fig. 474.
An imperfect armlet of thick bronze wire was found in a barrow at Wetton,[1482] by the late Mr. Bateman.
Four plain armillæ of bronze found with the spiral ring, Fig. 489, and with a palstave, in Woolmer Forest, Hants, are also in the Bateman Collection.[1483] As already mentioned, two small torques and a celt are said to have been found with them.[1484]
—— Fig. 474.—Scilly. ½ —————— Fig. 475.—Liss. ½
Ornamented bracelets, such as have been found in abundance in the Swiss Lake-dwellings, and such as are common in most continental countries, are scarce in Britain.
In the British Museum are two bracelets, slightly oval in section, and engraved with parallel lines, chevrons, &c., as will be seen by Fig. 475. They were found at Liss, Hampshire. Though the two ends are brought more closely together than usual in continental examples, the general character of these bracelets is much like that of some French and German specimens. The patina upon them closely resembles that on the celt Fig. 17, also found at Liss; so they were probably deposited together.
A curious penannular armlet with flat broad ends, and ornamented with punctured markings, was found with another armlet of smaller diameter, but plain, more massive, and broader, together with the remains of a skeleton, at Stoke Prior,[1485] Worcestershire. It is now in the British Museum, and is represented in Fig. 476. It may belong to a later period than that of which I am treating, and is possibly Saxon.
Fig. 476.—Stoke Prior. ½