An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . Fig. 170.—Danish Neolithic pottery. beads were no less than twenty urns decorated with pointsand lines, and with several skeletons in a tumulus atHammer in Zealand, were many llint imp](;ments, amberbeads, and numerous urns of llowerpot shape, and bowls,some for suspension, ornamented with markings, scratched,pressed, or engraved (Fig. 170). In Scotland several chambered cairns have vieldedpottery. At Ahnacree, in Argyllshire, a complete vessel4 inches high was recovered. It has a broad flattenedrim r(;curved below, and is round bottomed ; it i
An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . Fig. 170.—Danish Neolithic pottery. beads were no less than twenty urns decorated with pointsand lines, and with several skeletons in a tumulus atHammer in Zealand, were many llint imp](;ments, amberbeads, and numerous urns of llowerpot shape, and bowls,some for suspension, ornamented with markings, scratched,pressed, or engraved (Fig. 170). In Scotland several chambered cairns have vieldedpottery. At Ahnacree, in Argyllshire, a complete vessel4 inches high was recovered. It has a broad flattenedrim r(;curved below, and is round bottomed ; it is un- ^ Ancient Jiritish Barrows, Arc/ueoto}!;ia, , p. 195, Tlg. Closmadeuc, La Cerami(iiic dans les Dolmens de Morbihan,Rev. ArcJicoL, i., p. 257, Plates. THE NEOLITHIC OR NEW STONE AGE 141 ornamented (Fig. 171). At Largie, Kilmarton, in the samecounty, a wide-mouthed, round-bottomed urn, 6:^ incheshigh, of fine, dark-coloured, hard-baked paste, has its wholesurface ornamented with vertical tlutinofs which meet in thecentre of the
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