—— Fig. 478.—Guernsey. ½ —————— Fig. 479.—Cornwall. ½
A bronze armilla, made from a flat ribbon of metal, ½ inch broad, and ornamented outside with a neatly engraved lozengy pattern, was found with an interment in a barrow at Castern,[1492] near Wetton, Staffordshire.
Another, about 1½ inch wide, ornamented with four parallel bands of vertical lines, with chevrons at the end, was found in a barrow at Normanton,[1493] Wilts, encircling the arm of a skeleton, and is shown in Fig. 480. In this example the ends overlap.
Fig. 480.—Normanton. ⅔
Another, with a series of small longitudinal beads or mouldings upon it, was found near Lake, Wilts, and is in the collection of the Rev. E. Duke. Some plain penannular bracelets from that district are in the same collection.
An armlet of nearly the same character, but narrower, was found in Thor’s Cave,[1494] near Wetton, Derbyshire. Remains of Late Celtic and of Roman date were found in the same cave.
A fluted bracelet was found with rings and other objects at Edington Burtle, Somersetshire.[1495]
A bracelet of bronze, of which some of the fragments are represented in Fig. 481, was found with a bronze torque and a two-looped palstave at West Buckland,[1496] Somersetshire. It is flat on the inside, so that the ornaments appear to have been cast in a mould, though subsequently the more delicate work was added by means of punches or gravers.
