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purpose, but he, in turn, referred the question to Mr. Henry
Balfour, of Oxford, who offered the opinion that it was a skate.
Mr. Balfour was probably led to this conclusion from its
resemblance, so far as the holes are concerned, to the rarer
form of bone skate which is pierced at both ends, in a manner
FIG. 8.—BRONZE-AGE TRUMPET (BRITISH MUSEUM).
Fig,-9.—two African horNs (British museum).
similar to the Braintree and Colchester objects. Attention has
been drawn to these skates by Dr. Robert Munro.2 One of
these (fig. 11) was found at Stixwold Ferry, near Lincoln,3 and
is now in the Edinburgh Museum; the other at Ramsey, Hunts,
2 Prehistoric Problems, p. 296.
3 Proceedings of the Archaeological Institute. 1848 (Lincoln).