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interspaces. Such a specimen of stone was found on Ham Hill (Som. Co. Mus.); and a fine example of red sandstone comes from the camp known as ‘Castle’ in the parish of Wiveliscombe, where the ornament is well defined on both faces.
A line of indented dots in this specimen also encircles the whorl. It is figured in the writer’s paper on ‘Castle’ in Proc. Som. Arch. Soc., xcii (1946).

The same type of indented dots occurs on one face of the almost white stone whorl, W 85, from Meare (Plate XXIII).
Radial lines or spokes ornament some of the lead spindle-whorls found in the Iron Age settlements in West Yorkshire6.
The stone whorl, W 175, previously mentioned, is ornamented on one face by roughly-scored concentric lines (Plate XXIII). It is comparable to a certain extent with a stone whorl from Ham Hill, which has not only four radial lines but also four rows of finely scored but very irregular lines more or less concentric (Som. Co. Mus.).

It might here be noted that several comparable spindle-whorls were found at Hunsbury7 and at Maiden Castle8.

ABBREVIATIONS AND SIGNS USED IN THE FOLLOWING TABLES, &C.

In the following tables all dimensions are given in millimetres. If a whorl is not truly circular the maximum diameter is given; when the whorl is obviously of oval outline then the maximum and minimum diameters are recorded. The maximum dimension is given in recording thickness. When a perforation is countersunk or the hole tapers, the maximum diameter of the hole at the mouth has been given, unless otherwise stated.

6 Journ. Yorks Arch. Soc., xxxiv (1939), p. 134, Fig. ii, nos. 6, 8.
7 Arch. bourn., xciii, 70, and Plate xii.
8 Soc. of Antiq., Research Report xii, Plate xxxiii, and p. 295.

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