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 EARLY MAN cleft of a rock 21 feet 6 inches below the alluvium and about 45 yards from the bank of the river Severn at Lincombe in Astley parish. It w^eighed nearly i^ pounds, w^as about 6 inches long, 3 inches broad at one end and i inch at the other (Allies, p. 112, pi, iv. ; Evans, p. 81). vii. Ho/t. A looped bronze celt was found in the year 1844 in the middle of the bed of the river Severn near Holt, about 3 feet 6 inches under the gravel, as the workmen were dredging midway between the bridge and the entrance of the cutting from the lock for the purpose of the Severn navigation improvements. This celt was 4^ inches in length (Allies, p. 149, pi. iv. No. 6; Evans, p, 129). viii. A bronze pin 4I inches in length found about 18 feet below the surface and about 200 feet distant from the Severn in the cutting outside the south gates of the lock near Holt. It has a small cross formed of five knobs attached to the front of the ring. Sir John Evans says it belongs to quite the close of the Bronze period if not to the late Celtic (Allies, p. 1 49, pi. iv. No. 7 ; Evans, p. 381). ix. Ombersley. A glass ball alternately deep amber colour and white, an oblate 1 spheroid in shape and measuring a little over 1 1 inches by little more than i inch, found at Chatley near Ombers- ley, and is now in the Victoria Museum, Worcester. X. Ombersley. A ringed palstave b inches long, weighing 17I ounces, was dug up in a field about 9 inches below the sur- face which was formerly part of Lynal (Linnal or Lyneholt) Com- mon by Boreley in Ombersley. It is in the Worcester Museum. xi. Grimley Ham. A holed celt of basalt found 14 feet deep in the alluvial soil at a distance of about 127 yards from the Severn. It weighed 8 pounds 5I ounces, was 9 inches long, 3 inches broad, 4 inches thick at the blunt end and 3I inches broad at the sharp end. The hole for the handle was i| inches in diameter (Evans, Ancient Stone Implements, p. 180 ; Allies, p. 150). xii. Grimley. A holed celt found at Ball Mill in a gravel bed several feet beneath the surface. The bed where it was found lay on some rather elevated ground on the western side of the Severn nearly opposite to Bevere Island and within a short distance of it. This celt was 5 inches long, 2 inches broad at one end, i| inches at the other, i^ inches broad and i| inches thick in the middle. It weighed 9I ounces, was edged at both ends, but the one end had been rather blunted and lessened by use (Evans, p. 166 ; Allies, p. 150). xiii. Bevere. At this place on the opposite bank of the Severn to Grimley about the year 1809 a bronze celt was dug up in the island between it and Grimley. It was 4^ inches long, 2| inches broad at the widest end, if inches at the middle, | of an inch broad at the narrowest, ^ of an inch thick in the centre. It weighed 6| ounces, and was rather sharp at both ends, but most so at the smaller (Allies, p. 151, pi. iv. No. 11 ; Evans p. 42). 195