Text Appearing Before Image: mthe earliest (shaft) graves at Mycenae, and the double horse-shoe (fig. 87, no. 1 a) recalls the remarkable sculptures at New Grange,Co. Meath, and Gavrinis, Brittany. Above all, the degeneratereturning spirals (fig. 87, no. 2 a) are a reminiscence of Aegeanart, and everything points to the transmission of that influenceto the British Isles by way of Spain. ^IThe barrow at Kelleythorpe, Driffield, E. E. Yorks., containedas many as ten burials, but none cremated : with one were founda food-vessel and the bone object exhibited, and this may havebeen earlier than the cist, which was below the original surface(like fig. 27), and contained a crouching skeleton. On the rightwrist was the bracer (bowmans wrist-guard), which was fastenedwith a strap and small bronze buckle, the latter being found BRITISH BARROWS 91 underneath the bones. At the l.iack of the body were the bronzedagger and a drinking-cup/ while round the neck had beenattached three amber beads, with the under side flat and the Text Appearing After Image:
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