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Weaving-combs from the West Village 68
Dr. Wheeler found that some of the combs were found associated with Iron
Age 'A2' pottery others with 'B' pottery ; others again with 'C' pottery.
Weaving-combs found at Jordan Hill, near Weymouth, are mentioned in G.L.
V., I, 278. C. Warne in his work in Dorset, p.233, includes under the
Jordan Hill finds ',' two or three combs formed out of the rib or split
leg bone of sheep or goat.'
Hampshire-An ornamented comb of Type 4, having a perforation near
the butt and nine teeth (four of which are broken), was found at an Iron
Age hut-site on Snoddington Down in 1924. It is recorded that one other
was found. (Proc. Hants Field Club, IX, 1925, plate facing p.397).
A comb of antler was found in l933~on Meon Hill with other bone and antler
objects ; the comb has seven teeth, and a rounded butt, perforated. The
ornamentation is similar to that on HH 22 from the Meare Lake Village.
(Proc. Hants Field Club, XIII, Plate 29, V12, p.39).
Hertfordshire-A comb, exhibited in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,
was found at Ashwell in 1882. All the teeth are broken off and the end
of the handle is deficient.
Kent-A weaving-comb was found at Worth, having an oval butt-end,
five of the eight teeth remaining, ornamented with two panels of crossed
lines (Antiq. Journ., VIII, 85).
A weaving-comb, described as being of bone17,
with a squared enlargement and having two teeth remaining, was found with
other remains at Broadstairs. (Arch. Can tiana, XXX, 310, and plate facing
p.312.)
London and Thames-In the London Museum a weaving-comb found in
Moorgate Street, London, was exhibited ; it is rough and plain, probably
of bone, unornamented, long teeth (seven complete, two broken), upper
surface very convex. In the same museum another specimen found in the
Thames at Wandsworth (Dr. F. Corner Collection) ; it has five complete
teeth, but no ornament ; somewhat triangular enlargement at the butt-end.
Another from Wandsworth has the handle-end broken off; thirteen teeth
in all, some broken.
Lancashire-An ornamented weaving-comb of antler, having an oblong
enlargement and eight teeth was found in 1912 at Dog Holes, Warton Crag,
where other Late-Celtic objects have been found. (Trans. Lanc. & Cheshire
Antiq. Soc., XXX, 99-130, figured in plate.) An iron comb was also found,
and is figured and described (Dr. J. Wilfrid Jackson). (See also Jackson,
Trans. Cumb. & Westm. Arch. Soc., n.s., XIII, 55).
Norfolk-A comb broken across the shaft and having seven more or
less broken and well worn teeth was found at Wereham. It is ornamented
with plain dot-and-circle pattern and also with single dots encircled
by double concentric circles. (Figured in Arch. Journ., XCVI, p.35, fig.
7, no.3).
Two weaving-combs were found in 1760 under the earthworks at the Castle
Hill, Thetford. Drawings of these combs were exhibited by Dr. Stukeley
to the Society of Antiquaries, and outlines of them are here given (Fig.
10), taken from a heavily shaded drawing. (See also Arch. Journ., XCVI,
p.4 and p. 35,fig. 7 nos. 1, 2 ; and Armstrong, History of Norfolk, VIII,
1781, Hundred of Shropham,
pp.156-7).
17 Some of the combs described as
being of bone prove on closer examination to have been formed from antler.
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