An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . has been very kindly lent by the Somer-set Arch, and Nat. Hist. Soc, Taunton. 1 Glastonbury Lake Village, Plates L, LI, and Figs. 64, 139. 2 Munro, Lake Divellings of Etirope, p. 411, Figs. 144 and 145.^Nature, 23 November, 1911. ^ Archceologia, xlviii., Plate XXV. Also at Kingsholm (Gloucester-shire) and Highfield near Salisbury. 320 PREHISTORIC ART attributable to this period, is that made at Aylesford, inKent. Here were unearthed, in 1866, a number ofcremated burials arranged in a circle, accompanied by somuch pottery that the term Uimfield
An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . has been very kindly lent by the Somer-set Arch, and Nat. Hist. Soc, Taunton. 1 Glastonbury Lake Village, Plates L, LI, and Figs. 64, 139. 2 Munro, Lake Divellings of Etirope, p. 411, Figs. 144 and 145.^Nature, 23 November, 1911. ^ Archceologia, xlviii., Plate XXV. Also at Kingsholm (Gloucester-shire) and Highfield near Salisbury. 320 PREHISTORIC ART attributable to this period, is that made at Aylesford, inKent. Here were unearthed, in 1866, a number ofcremated burials arranged in a circle, accompanied by somuch pottery that the term Uimfield has been applied tothem. No mounds show the place of interment. Themost striking vessels are pedestalled and cordoned(Fig. 316). They are wheel made and of finer ware thanthat of the preceding Bronze Age. This style of ceramicspread over a considerable part of south-east England, ifnot beyond, for it has been found in Hertfordshire, Essex,Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, and in thecounties of Northampton, Surrey, and Dorset^ (Figs. 314,. Fig. 314.—Late Keltic pottery. Hitchin, Hertfordshire. 315). This ware is so different from other British potterythat a different origin is naturally suggested. The questionhas been carefully investigated by Sir A. J. Evans who hasarrived at some interesting conclusions pointing to the con-nexion between Britain and the Continent at this period. In the Late British Urnfield at Aylesford, he observes, we have for the first time a native example of an urn-field belonging to the period which preceded the Roman inva-sion, the immediate antecedents of which are to be soughtin the Belgic parts of Gaul, but which may be ultimatelytraced to an extensive Illyro-Italian province, and to a ^ See especially Late Keltic Pottery found at Hitchin in Antiq., xni. (1889), p. 16, and Late Keltic Antifjuities discoveredat Welvvyn, by R. A. Smith in Arcluzologia, LXiii. (1912), p. i. LATE KELTIC POTTERY 331 south branch of the urn-field group
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