An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . blin, or in theBritish Museum show this punctuation. It is probablytherefore a later a barrow at Cressinghamin Norfolk with an unburntburial was a similar oblonggold plate with bars of en-graved lines one within theother (Fig. 259). It mea-sures 3i inches long by 2iwide. With it was a bronzedagger 8| inches long.^ Inthe Clandown Barrow werealso lignite cones (i| by \\inch) covered with gold leaf,and a large jet globular ob-ject with gold bosses pos-sibly the head of a sceptre orstaff- One of the most remarkable discoveries of Bro
An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . blin, or in theBritish Museum show this punctuation. It is probablytherefore a later a barrow at Cressinghamin Norfolk with an unburntburial was a similar oblonggold plate with bars of en-graved lines one within theother (Fig. 259). It mea-sures 3i inches long by 2iwide. With it was a bronzedagger 8| inches long.^ Inthe Clandown Barrow werealso lignite cones (i| by \\inch) covered with gold leaf,and a large jet globular ob-ject with gold bosses pos-sibly the head of a sceptre orstaff- One of the most remarkable discoveries of Bronze Agegold was made in a cairn near Mold in Flintshire in theyear 1835. It is a gold peytrel mounted on copper, andmeasures 3 feet 7 inches in length and is 8 inches deep. Itis incomplete, but sufficient remains to show how it wasused, and the size of the animal for which it was adapted. ^ Abercromby, Bronze Age Pottery, i., p. 137, Plate LX, Oje^; n.,p. 10 and pp. 61-3, Plate CVIII, Oi,,, Oi^, o,,,, 026-^ Archaologia, XLUi., Figs. 158 and Fig. 259.—Gold plate. Cressingham,Norfolk. (Two-thirds size.) 236 PREHISTORIC ART It is elaborately ornamented, as the illustration well shows,with rows of embossed round, oval, and square nail-head elevations, separated by raised lines. The artists fond-ness for delicate workmanship, and his power of executingit, are revealed by the fine lines of minute embossed dotswith which the ridges of the nail-head bosses are orna-mented (Plate XIV), (Fig. 260). The gold lunulse from Cornwall have already beenmentioned. Other finds of gold have beenmade in the same county. Six gold brace-lets were discovered together at Cairn-Morvah in the parish of Morvah, and oneof the most interesting metal objects everfound in Britain comes from near Cheese-widng in the parish of Linkinhorne. Itwas a Gold Cup taken from a cistvaen undera cairn in 1818 (Fig. 261). With it was abronze spearhead 10 inches long. Threeand a half inches high and nearly as wideat
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