Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club Volume 21 baixar o livro de graça

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...groups of cross lines are separated by three oblongs running lengthwise on the metal. These oblongs are variously ornamented with cris-cross lines, and with diagonal or vandyke lines of little circles and dots. Fifehead Na'ille. A penannular torque bracelet, of rather stout make. It has been corroded down, or filed down, so that the convexity of the outer surface of the wires is almost done away with. Locality, &c. Fifehead Neville. Two very slightly made bracelets. They are penannular, but look as if the circle may have been broken accidentally. Their ornament is a kind of milling on the outer edge. Fordington. Two halves of a slender torque bracelet. Roman Well, Winterborne Kingston. An imperfect and much bent torque bracelet. Albert Road, Fordington, Dorchester. An expanding femoral, if a new name may be used. This specimen is suspected of being unique in regard to its use, namely, to be worn above the knee. It was found in 1896, by Mr. Bull, foreman of the Borough Work, in digging a trench for a sewer. It was found tightly clasping a full sized human femur. In getting it off, it was expanded to its present diameter, 4in., and in doing this, it seems to have been strained, so as to lose its spring. A ring of the same size will not go over even a small man's knee. But one of the size of this specimen, if fully expanded, slips on with the utmost ease. This remarkable ornament consists of a rod of bronze about in. thick, tapered a good deal at the ends. Each end is twisted neatly round the rod, so loosely as to move easily on it. When not in use, the ring would contract, judging by the position in which it was found. Locality, kc. certainly were connected with, 79. This is a snaffle bit with the rings (2iin. in diameter), and the bronze eyes in which th...