A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . Fic. lOS.—Socketed celt, H Fig. 109.—Tweezers .ind razor,Denmark. I driving, that large shijis (withuut sails) were constructed, and thata pictographic script was in existence. Clothing, of which thereare considerable remains, was made of skins and wool, but tracesof linen are very rare; indeed, imialements for spinning andweaving are unaccountably wanting in Scandinavia before theopening of the Iron age. Burial customs roughlj coriespondto those of England, ))ut the sepulchral pottery
A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . Fic. lOS.—Socketed celt, H Fig. 109.—Tweezers .ind razor,Denmark. I driving, that large shijis (withuut sails) were constructed, and thata pictographic script was in existence. Clothing, of which thereare considerable remains, was made of skins and wool, but tracesof linen are very rare; indeed, imialements for spinning andweaving are unaccountably wanting in Scandinavia before theopening of the Iron age. Burial customs roughlj coriespondto those of England, ))ut the sepulchral pottery differs. In thefirst part of the Bronze age the dead were buried unburnt instone cists or in tree-trunks split and hoUoAved for the on, the bodies were burned, and the ashes preserved insmall stone cists or in simjile ui-ns of pottery. The graves weregenerally covered witli a liairow or cairn, and in many cases thecentral and primary grave is a cist, while otlier Later interments SCANDINAVIA 105 have been made in the mound (cf. hgs. 27, 28). Three parts ofthis Case contain ant
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