The Ancient Bronze Implements, Weapons, and Ornaments, of Great Britain and Ireland.Evans, John
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The Ancient Bronze Implements, Weapons, and Ornaments, of Great Britain and Ireland.
Evans, John
Bronze age -- Great Britain; Bronze age -- Ireland; Great Britain -- Antiquities
A typical example of Dr. Thurnam’s second class from a barrow at
Bulford,[673] Wilts, is shown in Fig. 226. Another was found at
Beckhampton, and a small pricker of the same type was found with a
burnt interment at Storrington,[674] Sussex. Like those found by Sir
R. C. Hoare, this was regarded as the pin for fastening the cloth in
which the bones were collected from the funeral pyre. The fact of
several of them having been found still inserted in their hafts, as
will subsequently be seen, will suffice to prove that this view is
mistaken.
Several awls pointed at both ends were found by the late Mr. Bateman
during his researches in the Derbyshire barrows. In Waggon Low[675]
at the right shoulder of a contracted skeleton were three instruments
of flint, and a small bronze awl 1½ inches long, tapering each way
from the middle, which is square. Another, pointed at each end, lay
with a drinking cup and a rude spear- or arrow-head of flint near the
shoulder of a youthful skeleton in a barrow near Minning Low.[676]
Another of the same kind was found in a barrow on Ilam Moor,[677]
Staffordshire. Another was found with calcined bones in a barrow in
Larks-Low,[678] Middleton.
[Illustration: Fig. 226. Bulford. 1/1]
[Illustration: Fig. 227. Winterbourn Stoke. ½]
In several instances there were traces of a wooden handle, as was
the case with one, upwards of 3 inches long, which was found with a
flint spear-head, a double-edged axe of basaltic stone, and objects of
bone, among the calcined bones in a sepulchral urn from a barrow at
Throwley.[679]
In a barrow at Haddon Field[680] there was a small drinking cup near
the back of a contracted skeleton, and beneath this an arrow-head of
flint, an instrument of stag’s-horn like a netting mesh, and a bronze
awl showing traces of its wooden handle.
In another barrow near Gotam, Nottinghamshire,[681] there lay near the
thigh of a contracted skeleton a neatly chipped spear-head of flint,
and a small bronze pin which had been inserted into a wooden handle.
In a barrow near Fimber,[682] Yorkshire, opened by Messrs. Mortimer,
there were found near the knee of a contracted female skeleton a
knife-like chipped flint and the point of a bronze pricker or awl.
With another female interment in the same barrow a bronze pricker was
found inserted in a short wooden haft. The Britoness in this instance
wore a necklace of jet discs with a triangular pendant of the same
material.
A bronze pin, 1½ inches long, accompanied by a broken flint celt and
some arrow-heads and flakes of flint, together with calcined bones,
was found in an urn in Ravenshill barrow,[683] near Scarborough.
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