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OBJECTS EXCAVATED AT WATCH-TOWERS T. XVII AND T. XVII. A

T. XVII. 001. Horn spoon, roughly made; partly decayed. Length 6¼″. Pl. LIII.

T. XVII. 002-004. Three wooden seal-cases; 002 and 003 type C, 004 type A; see T. VIII. 5. 003 retains string turned twice round, knotted and hanging free to length of 7″. 002 (largest) 2″×1⅝″×1⁄16″.

T. XVII. 005. Fr. of basket-work, prob. heel part of grass shoe; warp of hemp, weft grass; weave 'wrapped-twined'. 7″×4″.

T. XVII. 006. Fabric frs., including:—one fr. of loosely woven white fabric made prob. of fibre of Broussonetia pa-

pyrifera (see T. VI. b. i. 0013; analysed by Dr. Hanausek), one fr. of red silk, and one fr. of grey-black silk, plain weave. Gr. M. 9″.

T. XVII. 007. Wooden fish-hook, cut from forked twig; regular primitive harpoon type; top of stem notched and piece of two-ply string fastened round notch. Length 4¼″, length of barb 1⅜″. Pl. LIII.

T. XVII. a. 001. Iron spear-point, two-edged, with hollow socketed shank; blade has marked shoulders and almost straight edges; section diamond-shaped. Point 4″×1⁄16″×⅝″, shank 2″×⅜″ diam. Pl. LIII.

OBJECTS EXCAVATED AT, OR FOUND NEAR, THE RUINED MAGAZINE T. XVIII

T. XVIII. (?) 001. Bronze belt-catch, cast. Long loop-ring for end of leather thong; on outside, lion's head, from the mouth of which issues a long tang, bending back, and then turning forwards at right angles, and ending in a round button whereon is monkey's head; this to pass through metal ring on other end of belt. Length 2⅞″. Pl. LIII.

T. XVIII. (P) 002. Fr. of ragged buff silk fabric, plain weave. c. 10″×7″.

T. XVIII. 003. Two frs. of porcelain from same vessel, painted in blue under a greyish white glaze; rough floral pattern outside, on inner rim border of dots above double line. Same ware as T. XI. 0010. Chinese. Gr. M. 1⅜″.

T. XVIII. i. 001. Wooden peg, as T. 002, etc., but without notches, and drawing in black and red much effaced; top broken where a hole was drilled half-way through (diam. ⅜″). 8¼″×1⅜″×⅞″.

T. XVIII. i. 002. Wooden writing slip, blank: end broken. Length 6¼″.

T. XVIII. ii. 9. a-b. (a) Wooden block, roughly oblong, split with grain of wood; only one side smoothed; on this, traces of ink drawing or Chin. chars. With it an iron skewer (b) with ring at blunt end; as T. XII. a. 0026; much corroded. (a) 7⅜″×2″×¼″; (b) length of whole 4⅜″, of pin 3⅝″, gr. width of pin ¼″.

T. XVIII. ii. 10. Segment of round wooden beam, with inscription (two Chin. letters) reading 'Southern Buddha' (?), in black. 6¼″×3″×2⅜″.

T. XVIII. iii. 001. Woven string shoe, made on last. Sole similar to T. VI. b. i. 0011; warp of uppers two-ply, weft of finer twine in plain weave, giving corded effect. Manipulation of warp at toe to achieve shape is interesting. Edge well finished and originally covered with soft kid leather; toe worn away, little at heel. Length 8¼″, gr. width 3⅝″.

T. XVIII. iii. 002. Woven string shoe, small size, of same type as T. VI. b. i. 0011. Loop of tightly coiled string fastened lengthways into upper surface of toe-piece; sole studded with knots; toe worn through, otherwise in excellent condition. Length 8″, gr. width 3⅛″.

T. XVIII. iii. 003. Wooden counter or die (?). Block, tip-cat shaped, sq. in section across middle and with both ends cut to a four-sided point; on the sides are burns made by hot wire, irregular and seemingly on no system. Perhaps a piece in some game; cf. T. XXVIII. c. Hard wood, smooth surface. Length 1″, section in middle ⅝″ sq. Pl. LIII.

T. XVIII. iii. 004. Bronze arrow-head; type T. 007. Much corroded. Length 1⅜″.

OBJECTS EXCAVATED AT RUINED WATCH-TOWER T. XIX

T. XIX. 001. Rude oblong piece of wood; on one side, insufficiently smoothed, very crude drawing of a face (?). Cf. T. XXVIII. 35. 4⅞″×1⅔×⅜″.

T. XIX. 002. Fabric frs., including:—one fr. of light buff silk fabric, a strip of red silk fabric, and two frs. of indigo silk fabric. The light red and the buff are of firm even plain weave, the indigo of fine ribbed weave. Gr. fr. (light red) 1″ 11⅜″×⅜″.

T. XIX. 003. Strong hemp string, two-ply, coiled in figure of eight and tied round middle; one end of coil abraded. Diam. of string c. ⅛″, coil 3¼″×1¼″.

T. XIX. 004. Chopped reed straw, specimen of.

T. XIX. i. 6. Reed arrow-shaft; cf. T. XIX. i. 006. Lacquered part shows marks of feathers and binding; at end lacquer has been trimmed away as if for some subsequent purpose. Length 9″, diam. 7⁄16″.

T. XIX. i. 001. Wooden seal-case, type C; see T. VIII. 5. Roughly cut. 1⅝″×1⅔×⅜″.

T. XIX. i. 002. Flat wooden spoon-shaped trowel; end of handle charred; on blade, mud and chopped straw. Prob. builder's trowel. 11″×1⅞″ (gr. width of blade) to ⅝″×¼″ to ½″.