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viz. all those known to the writer at that date.15 For the benefit of future research upon this subject it is proposed to give further references here to bring the record up-to-date as far as possible ; but it is fullly realized that the list is by no means complete.16
The arrangement of the following notes will be under Counties, and not under the classified types of combs.

Berkshire~ 'A fine bone " hackling-comb" of Glastonbury Type 3' undecorated, but with neatly made handle with incurved sides', was found with pottery sherds giving the impression of a long survival of Hallstatt forms unaffected by later influences, on a settlement-site at Radley ; it had nine teeth when complete. (Report, Ashmolean Mus., 1930, p.14 ; figured in Antiq. Journ., XI, 387.)

Another comb (? bone) found at Radley, had nine teeth and rounded butt-end ; ornamented with dots-and-circles and a chevron pattern round the border of the handle ; found with a small La Tene I fibula (Report, Ashmoiean Mus., 1933, p.16 ; figured in Antiq. Journ., XV, 38-39, Plate v,fig. 3).

The handle of a weaving-comb with rounded end and ornamented with dot-and-circle pattern, was found at Hatford, with a blue and white globular glass bead. (Ashmolean Museum).

Cambridgeshire-Two weaving-combs were found in a low knoll known as Bellus Hill, Abington Pigotts ; one had six teeth and a rounded terminal ; the other has a somewhat pointed terminal, very wide at the dentated end, and there are indications that there were originally sixteen teeth. (V. C. H. Cambs., 1.287, fig. 22, nos. 5, 6 ; Proc. Preh. Soc. East Anglia, IV, 211 et seq.).

A weaving-comb was found on the Gog Magog Hills-probably from Wandlebury Camp ; it has a squared terminal and six teeth, and is ornamented with crossed lines. (Figured in V. C.H. Cambs., I, 287, fig. 22, no.3). Two other combs, were found, op. cit., I, 285.

A weaving-comb of bone (?), Type 3, was found when digging for coprolites at Barrington it has a square enlargement, with line ornament on the handle ; most of the teeth broken off, but three remain. Given by Dr. H. Langton to Brighton Museum in 1913. Three La Tene brooches have been found in the parish of Barrington.

A comb with rounded terminal and having nine teeth, was found at Hauxton on a site dominating the ford of the Essex Cam (Cambridge Mus.). (Proc. Camb. Antiq. Soc., VII, 1891, p.24 ; V. C.H. Camb., T, 287, fig. 22, no.2).

Dorset-Maiden Castle. From the Maiden Castle Report (1943), pp. 297-303, and Figs, 101-103, it will be seen from the illustrations and descriptions that twenty-three weaving-combs were found in these excavations. They are of the same character and bear the same style of ornament (although they are not so elaborate in decoration) as the large series of specimens from the lake villages of Somerset. Half the Maiden Castle specimens are devoid of decoration. Some of the remainder are

15 We are able to amplify a few of the references to combs already noted in G.L. V., vol. I (1911):- P.275, note 1, add, All the combs are figured in the Arch. Journ., xciii, P1. viii facing p.69, and P1. xii.
P.275, note 2, add, Figured in V. C.H. Cambs. i (1938), 287.
P.277, note 5, add, Figured also in Journ. Roman Studies, iii (1913), 103.
P.279, note 3, add, One of these is figured by Boyd Dawkins, 'Early Man in Britain', 267.
P.280, line 3, the Kent's Cavern specimen is plain and has seven teeth (Brit. Mus.) also part of another in Brit. Mus. ornamented with double zig-zag lines, similar to H 271 from G.L.V. Another similar, perforated, and having zig-zag ornamentation, is to be seen in Torquay Museum.
P.280, note 4, add, Figured in The Reliquary, vi (1865-6), 210. The handle is ornamented with a grouping of fourteen
dots-and-circles, and it appears to have had seven teeth.

16 The writer has collected his notes from time to time when journals, etc., have been published.

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