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Ring Pin, Flusco
Pike
B. C. Durham.
Mr. URBAN,
I SEND you the drawing of a fibula of uncommon magnitude and
weight, found in April last, at Huskew Pike, an eminence
distant from Penrith in Cumberland about three miles, on the
Keswick road, (See the plate, fig. 8.) In searching
for stones, several urns, and other remains of human
sepulture, have been found at this place; but history is
silent touching the people here interred, or whether the
occasion was public: the adjacent country was the scene of
many deadly conflicts in early ages. The fibula is of
silver, and coarse workmanship; the diameter of the circle
is seven inches and a half; the studs or buttons are hollow,
and fitted on without solder; it has never been burnished,
as appears by the hammer marks remaining: the length of the
tongue, or spear, is twenty inches and three quarters; and
the whole weight is twenty-five ounces. I hope some of your
correspondents will discover its proper use, as it seems to
be too heavy an ornament for a man's apparel.
Yours,
W.H.
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