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 aAULISH FORTRESSES ON THE COAST OF BRITTANY. 323 was found in a kind of enclosure or court, contiguous to the chamber, but about a yard from the wall of it. Archreo- logists are not yet agreed as to the intended use of these objects. They are considered to be either spindle-whorls, buttons of garments, amulets, or marks of distinction. It is possible that they have served more than one use ; but it is certain they are found in large numbers in caves, in dolmens or cromlechs, and with lacustrine remains.' They have also been found in Palestine associated with the most primitive productions of human industry. They must, moreover, have continued in use during the occupation of Brittany by the Romans, for I found seven or eight specimens wliile excavat- ing a Roman settlement a little more than half a mile from Quimper. Mr. Stanley also discovered several in the circular habitations of Ty-mawr, near Holyhead, with Roman coins and pottery. A large number of those found in Northern Europe are made of stone, while those found in Brittany are more frequently of baked clay. VIII. — A button of bone with a central aperture, and which has served the same purpose or purposes as the articles just described. Its interior diameter is nearly an inch, and its thickness about half an inch. One of its faces is conical, the other convex, and it bears traces of fire. IX. — A ring of white glass, having a slight violet tinge, and broken in two pieces. The interior diameter measures two-fifths of an inch, the exterior about twice as much. There was also found part of a blue bead of a necklace. X. — Half of a bead of a necklace in blue glass. XL — A plain bronze ring, having an interior diameter of about an inch. It has on its inner face a kind of projecting moulding. XII. — A very small bead of a bronze necklace. XIII. — A bronze implement 2 in. long, terminated at one of its extremities by a ring. It is difficult to conjecture the use of it, unless, perhaps, it may have been a kind of punch or a bodkin. XIV. — Twelve portions of stone celts or axes, among wdiich are three with cuttino; edoes. One of them is of flint, three are of quartz, and the others of a fine and compact grh. ' In the Museum at Valines are spinrlle- Mane Kerlud (Carnac"), of Er Hourich whorla of burnt clay exactly similar to (in La Trinit(^-8ur-Mer), of Resto ^Mous- those found at Castel Coz. These were toir-ac^, and of Mane lud and Mane-er- discovered in the dolmens of Keriaval, of Hroeg (Locmanaher). VOL. XXIX. Z Z