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A Gold Ornament found at Castle Cary, Somerset

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

H. St. George Gray
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The gold ornament here described was found over a hundred years ago at the north end of the hamlet of Galhampton and just within the parish of Castle Cary, but it has never been recorded before. It was recently presented to the Somerset Museum at Taunton Castle by Dr. R. E. H. Woodforde (who now resides in Hertfordshire). It had been handed down in his family, and was dug up by his great-grandfather, Colonel William Woodforde (1758–1844) in his garden on the west side and close to the main road from Castle Cary to Ilchester.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , April 1925 , pp. 141 - 144
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1925

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page 141 note 1 Colonel Woodforde raised the first corps of Somerset Volunteer Infantry in 1804, and he was the Lieut.-Colonel commandant when it became the East Somerset Regiment of Local Militia.

page 141 note 2 Galhampton proper is in the parish of North Cadbury. The garden and house (long since demolished) are represented by a wooded enclosure, nine furlongs south of Castle Cary church, and close to the south-west of Redlands Farm and Victoria Cottages (6-inch O.S. map, Sheet LXV, S.W.). The place is three miles north of the large camp known as Cadbury Castle, or Camelot.

page 142 note 1 Callander, J. Graham in Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., lvii, 163.Google Scholar

page 142 note 2 Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., lvii, 163.

page 142 note 3 I make no claim that this article contains a complete list of the discoveries of this type of gold ornament. Indeed, there may be several omissions. Some of the early accounts of the finding of these and similar ornaments are extremely vague and unsatisfactory. When our knowledge of this type develops, however, the references I have given may be found useful to those working upon the same subject in the future.

page 142 note 4 Evans, , Bronze Implements, 391Google Scholar; Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., lvii, 316.

page 142 note 5 Archaeologia, liv, p. 95, fig. 2; Bronze Age Guide, Britisli Museum (1920), 47, fig. 33Google Scholar.

page 143 note 1 Tate, , History of Alnwick, 15Google Scholar; Archaeologia, liv, 95; Arch. Journ., x, 74.

page 143 note 2 Proc. Soc. Ant., xviii, 388.

page 143 note 3 Arch. Journ., xiii, 295, where a pair of these ornaments from Limerick is figured. These and three penannular armlets of gold and a small gold ring, found together in co. Limerick in 1845, are figured in Arch. Journ., x, plate facing p. 74.

page 143 note 4 Arch. Journ., vii, 65; Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., xli, 213; Reliquary, iv (1863–4), 203 (cf. Darley Dale ‘find’, same reference).

page 143 note 5 Cat. Mus. of Ant., Edinburgh (1892), p. 157Google Scholar, no. DQ 158–61; Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., xxvi, 182; xli, 213; lvii, 163, 317; Archaeologia, lxi, pp. 151–2, fig. 192.

page 144 note 1 Cat. Mus. of Ant., Edinburgh (1892), p. 210Google Scholar, no. FE 7; Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., vi, 311; xiii, 331; xxvi, 185; xli, 213; lvii, 163; Anderson, , Scotland in Pagan Times (Bronze and Iron Ages), p. 144Google Scholar, fig. 142; also p. 227.

page 144 note 2 Cat. Mus. of Ant., Edinburgh (1892), p. 210Google Scholar, no. FE 4; Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., iii, 23–4; xxvi, 186; lvii, p. 163, fig. 19, and p. 317; Evans, , Bronze Implements, p. 391Google Scholar, fig. 489; Anderson, , Scotland in Pagan Times (Bronze and Iron Ages), p. 210, fig. 227Google Scholar.

page 144 note 3 Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., lvii, 163, 315.

page 144 note 4 Ibid., lvii, 163, 316.

page 144 note 5 Cat., Irish Gold Ornaments, Royal Irish Academy, 1920, pl. XVIII, and pp. 87 and 88.Google Scholar

page 144 note 6 Ibid., p. 18; cf. foot-note 3, p. 143.