An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . Fig. 316.—A grave in the Aylesford Urn Field containing pedestalled cordonedpottery, bronze jug and patella, and bronze-bound wooden bucket with em-bossed designs. With the bucket from Aylesford may be compared two others. One from Elveden in Suffolk, the other is known as the MarlboroiLcrh bucket. The former is bound with a 21 * 324 PREHISTORIC ART broad central band of bronze bearing two plain handles,and ornamented with engraved circles enclosing scroll de-signs ^ (Fig. 317). The latter was illustrated long ago by SirColt Hoare in his Ancien
An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . Fig. 316.—A grave in the Aylesford Urn Field containing pedestalled cordonedpottery, bronze jug and patella, and bronze-bound wooden bucket with em-bossed designs. With the bucket from Aylesford may be compared two others. One from Elveden in Suffolk, the other is known as the MarlboroiLcrh bucket. The former is bound with a 21 * 324 PREHISTORIC ART broad central band of bronze bearing two plain handles,and ornamented with engraved circles enclosing scroll de-signs ^ (Fig. 317). The latter was illustrated long ago by SirColt Hoare in his Ancient IVilts, and described as comingfrom Marlborough in Wiltshire. It is bound with threecircular bronze bands ornamented with opposed quadrupedal. Fig. 317.—Bucket found at Elveden, Suffolk. figures and human heads in repousse. The elaboration otthe design in this case suggests a foreign origin and recallsornamentation of Hallstatt type. Its importation fromGaul is supported by the presence of similar figures oncoins of Armorica and the Channel Islands. The middle Arc/ueologia, lii., p. ;o9- LATE KELTIC POTTERY 325 band carries two drop handles.^ Here attention may ap-propriately be called to another bucket, or rather tankard,discovered at Trawsfynydd in Merionethshire, the handleof which is a beautiful piece of pierced metal work madeup of Late Keltic curves and scrolls. It is 5J inches highby 7 wide and is completely covered on the outside withsheet bronze. Two pairs of incised concentric circlesornament the bottom, in the centre of which is a bronzeknob. Both the ingenuity displayed in the constructionof this remarkable vessel, and the artistic feeling whichpervade its decorative features are worthy of our highestadmiration
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