A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . ifi. 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 co
A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . ifi. 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 the. Fig. 88.—Food-vessel, , E. R. Yoi-ks. best manufactured and most delicately ornamented met with inthe barrows. The bowl (fig. 88) maj rank as a food-vessel,and was found in the same Isarrow as the casket (now restored), adjoined the cremated remains of a woman. Both are pos-sibly by the same hand, but the bowl may have belonged toa primar)^ unburnt male burial. To the right are ornaments of jet and amber from barrows invarious parts of the kingdom. Among several examples of jetbuttons with V-shaped perforations should be noticed one of verjsmall bore, found with a bronze celt and skeleton in Soham Fen,Cambs. This specimen, like one from Pen-y-Bonc, Holyhead, wasperhaps attached to a necklace like that illustrated from Scotland(fig. 89), which was found with two bronze armlets in a cistcontaining an unburnt skeleton. Two jet and one bronze ringwith lateral perforat
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