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I.—Specimens from the Layton Collection, in Brentford Public Library

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2011

Reginald A. Smith
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Mr. Thomas Layton died on 4th September 1911 at the advanced age of ninety-two years, having been a Fellow of this Society since 1868. He had contributed to the Bronze Age Exhibition at Somerset House in 1872, and in 1883 gave a remarkable Roman sword and sheath (fig. 25) to the British Museum; but otherwise his energies were devoted to collecting, unhappily with little method or discretion, and the task of carrying out the terms of his will was anything but a formality. Most of his antiquities came to light during dredging operations in the Thames at Kew, where he resided, and these were left to the Brentford Public Library as the nucleus of a Layton museum. The Librarian, Mr. F. A. Turner, has cleaned, sorted, and exhibited the specimens with infinite pains and considerable success; and it is to him and the Brentford Library Committee that we are indebted for the present exhibition and for permission to examine and describe the principal items of the collection.

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Archaeologia , Volume 69 , 1920 , pp. 1 - 30
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1920

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page 1 note 1 An obituary notice from the pen of Sir Hercules Read is printed in Proceedings, xxiv, 232

page 1 note 1 Figured in Reliquiae Aquitanicae, pl. xxxii, fig. 5: it is stated on p. 133 of the Description that ‘the large notches on the edges are of recent origin’.

page 1 note 1 Several with their original hafts, found in Switzerland, are illustrated in Report of Lons-le-Saunier Congress (Prehistoric Society of France), 1913, p. 903.

page 1 note 1 Other cases in Evans, , Stone Implements, 2nd ed., pp. 225, 227Google Scholar; and close parallels in Manchester Museum, from the Thames at Hammersmith, and in the Ashmolean Museum, from the Thames at Windsor.

page 8 note 1 Like one from the material of a round barrow, figured by Mortimer, J. R. (Burial-mounds of East Yorks., pl. xlvi, fig. 373, see p. 140).Google Scholar

page 8 note 2 One of basalt was found in the Thames at Reading (V. C. H. Berks, i, 177, fig. 8); another of red quartzite with white veins at Rafford, Elginshire (Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., xxii, 353).

page 8 note 3 Rather an unexpected feature, but there are several blunt-edged axes in Dr. Sturge's collection.

page 10 note 1 Greenwell, , British Barrows, index under ‘Cross’ Thurnam in Archaeologia, xliii, 370, 384, 398.Google Scholar

page 11 note 1 Described by Dr. Müller, Sophus, Mémoires de la Société des Antiquaires du Nord, 1914–15, p. 73.Google Scholar

page 12 note 1 Also apparently on pottery of the Bronze Age: e. g. a food-vessel from barrow ccxlii at Folkton, E. R. Yorks., and a four-footed vase from Amotherby, N. R. Yorks., both in the Greenwell collection, British Museum.

page 13 note 1 On p. 398, pl. i, fig. 1, is illustrated a flanged celt from this collection, described at p. 428.

page 14 note 1 Found together in peat at Houghton, between Horsebridge station and Bossington House. Mr. Reginald Hooley, hon. curator, has kindly supplied full-sized drawings.

page 15 note 1 e.g. the Dowris hoard, King's Co., and four from the Greenwell collection in the British Museum (one from the Tyne, another from Alnham, Northumberland, and two from Ireland). The type is discussed by Tallgren in Opuscula Oscari Montelii, p. 115.

page 17 note 1 One very similar was included in the Shoebury hoard {Proceedings, ‘.xiv, 178) and plain ones of gold were found at Tisbury, Wilts. (Brit. Mus. Bronze Age Guide, fig. 141), but the type was evidently derived from south-east France and Switzerland. The solid bar with overlapping ends (specimens in the Layton collection) is probably of local origin.

page 19 note 1 Specimens from Glastonbury and Ham Hill in Glastonbury Lake-village, ii, 394.Google Scholar

page 20 note 1 Compare one from Bigbury near Canterbury, where an ‘axle-end’ was also found Arch. Journ., lix (1902), 214Google Scholar, fig. 3 a; now in Manchester Museum); others from Cissbury, Sussex, (Journ. Anthrop. Inst., vii (1878), pl. xi,Google Scholar p. 422), Ham Hill, Dorset (Glastonbury Lake-village, ii, 366, fig. 138, right), and Wookey Hole, Som. (Balch, Wookey Hole, pl. xvii, fig. 50, see p. 93).

page 25 note 1 A bronze pan that may have been a gong was included in the Wotton hoard, and similar pans, with what may have been beaters, are known from Sturmere, Essex, and Westhall, Suffolk.

page 28 note 1 Noticed by our Fellow Mr. Horace Sandars in Archaeologia, lxiv, 286.

page 30 note 1 Proceedings, 2nd ser., iv, 118.

page 30 note 2 There is one in Doncaster Museum, and another is illustrated in Arch. Journ., Vol. V, 327.