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3lrchaeffl0jgijr €mxbnm\^ FIFTH SERIES.—VOL. XII, NO. XL VIII. OCTOBER 1895. NOTES UPON SOME BRONZE AND STONE WEAPONS DISCOVERED IN WALES. BY STEPHEN W. WILLIAMS, ESQ., F.S.A. Fuom time to time weapons of the bronze period have been discovered in Wales ; some have been illustrated in the pages of Archceologia Cambrensis and the Mont¬ gomeryshire Collections of the Powysland Club, but many more, we fear, have passed into the melting-pot, or into the hands of collectors of curios, and all records of the places, and under what conditions they were found, whether as hidden hoards, or dropped singly, has been entirely lost. The examples selected for illustration in this No. of Archceologia Cambrensis can, with one exception, be all identified as to locality. Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4, belonging to Colonel Verney of Clochfaen, Llangurig, were found "a few years ago upon Caban Coch Common, in the parish of Llansaintffraid Cwmdauddwr, Radnorshire, by a man who was getting road-metalling from a mass of broken stone that had fallen from the precipitous side of the valley of the Elan, near the site of the great dam which is being built to impound the waters of the rivers Elan and Claerwen for the water-supply of the city of Birmingham. The finder described to me that the four weapons lay in a small cavity covered with a OTH REB..VOL. XII. 16