. British barrows: a record of the examination of sepulchral mounds in various parts of England. Mounds -- England; Craniology -- Great Britain; England -- Antiquities. 266 YOIIKSHIKE, JiAST HIDING. weapon was laid with the perforation in a vertical position. Close to it was a flint tool of elongated triangular form, If in. long, and chipped along both edges. In the material of the barrow were some sherds of pottery, two round flint scrapers, and some bones of goat or sheep, ox, dog, and pig, all of domesticated animals. This barrow presented some features which seem to require a more particul
. British barrows: a record of the examination of sepulchral mounds in various parts of England. Mounds -- England; Craniology -- Great Britain; England -- Antiquities. 266 YOIIKSHIKE, JiAST HIDING. weapon was laid with the perforation in a vertical position. Close to it was a flint tool of elongated triangular form, If in. long, and chipped along both edges. In the material of the barrow were some sherds of pottery, two round flint scrapers, and some bones of goat or sheep, ox, dog, and pig, all of domesticated animals. This barrow presented some features which seem to require a more particular notice than the mere record of their occurrence. The most important matter is the discovery of two articles which. cannot have been anything else than a ' flint and steel/ the means of producing fire. So far as I know, this is the first instance of anything of the kind appertaining to the bronze age having been specially recorded ^; and although the probability that in these ' Though the occiin'ence of pyrites of iron and flint in ban-ows had been already remarked, it does not seem to have suggested the purpose to which these materials had been applied. Mr. Batenian, for instance, mentions that in a barrow on Elton Moor, near the head of a body ' was a j^iece of spherical iron pyrites, now for the first time noticed as being found with other relics in the British tumuli.' In the rear of the same body w as ' a flat piece of polished iron ore, a small celt of flint, with the peculiarity of having a round polished edge instead of a cutting one as is usual; a beautifully-chipped cutting tool, twenty-one circular instruments, almost all neatly chipped, and seventeen pieces or rude instruments, all of flint.' Vestiges, p. 53. In Green Lowe, behind the shoulders of a skeleton was ' a piece of si)herical pyrites or iron ore . . and a flint instrument of the circular-headed form.' /. c, p. 59. In Dowe Lowe a skeleton '.was accompanied by a fluted brass dagger . . and an amulet or orn
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