Identifier: cu31924029929233 (find matches)
Title: A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of British and mediæval antiquities and ethnology Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929
Subjects: Bronze age
Publisher: (London) : Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Fifi. 87.—Ornamentation of chalk drums, Folkton. I V-shaped perforation characteristic of the early Bronze age inthese islands. A mass of linen-cloth lay under the entire lengthof the skeleton, and was no doubt used as a winding-sheet. ThisIjurial is remarkable in more than one particular. Here a drink-ing-cup is found with bronze (as in a few other cases in York- 92 DESCRIPTION OP CASE F shire) ; the bracer is found in position, though the wearer musthave been left-handed, and its gold studs confirm the early dateassigned to the remarkable spear-head in Case A. The small bronze knife from Bradley, Derbyshire, was found inthe mouth of a large cinerary urn in Case 18. The stone axe-hammers from Yorkshire (as fig. 93) belong to types that musthave survived well into the Bronze age, and are often found withcremated interments in England, though in Scotland they maybelong in some cases, as always in Scandinavia, to the neolithicperiod. Two pieces of pottery are included here as being th

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