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XV. An Account of some Antiquities discovered on the Quantock Hills, in Somersetshire, in the Year 1794; communicated by Charles Joseph Harford, Esq. of Stapleton in the County of Glocester

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In the month of December 1794, a labourer, employed to dig a drain through a marshy piece of ground, on the south side of the Quantock Hills in Somersetshire, found, about six feet beneath the surface, two rings, one lying on the other; within each of which was placed a celt, as represented in the annexed plate; he took them away with him when he left work; and on his return the following day he perceived the ground, where they had lain, was sunk, as if it had been hollow underneath: unfortunately, he searched no further. Of these curious articles of antient workmanship two celts, and one ring, which proved to be a torques, [Pl. XXIII.fig. 2.] were soon after sent to me; the other torques, I understand, is in the possession of the owner of the estate. Concluding from the circumstance of the ground's sinking, that bones, or other sepulchral relicks, might be found, I obtained permission to open the place; which I accordingly did with the person who had made the discovery, but without success. This may, in some degree, be ascribed to a road having been made, and to other difficulties in ascertaining the exact spot which we were anxious to explore.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1803

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page 96 note [a] See Camden's Britannia, article Merionethshire.

page 97 note [b] Genesis, xli. 42.

page 97 note [c] Daniel, v. 7.

page 97 note [d] Strabo, lib. iv. Amst. ed. p. 302.

page 97 note [e] Livy, lib, xxxvi. cap. 40.

page 97 note [f] According to Dion Cassus (lib, Ixii.) Boadicea wore a golden torques, στδεπๅον μεγαν χδυσδν εΦοδει.

page 97 note [g] Livy, lib, vii. cap. 10.