A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . Fig. 35.—.Jet button, Eud-stone, E. R. Yorks. Fig. 36.—Jet ring,Thwing, E. R. Yorks. an encrinite. Close to the beads was a large flat ring of lignite,a pendent ornament of the same material, a conical button ofshale, a cast of a cardium wliell, and a small polished pebble ofhaematite. A few inches beyond the north end of the gravewas another incense-cup with a few scattered burnt bones, with. Flu. .-M.—Buiio Loads, Folkton, E. K. Yorks. similar urnament but of inferior fabric. It had, however,
A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . Fig. 35.—.Jet button, Eud-stone, E. R. Yorks. Fig. 36.—Jet ring,Thwing, E. R. Yorks. an encrinite. Close to the beads was a large flat ring of lignite,a pendent ornament of the same material, a conical button ofshale, a cast of a cardium wliell, and a small polished pebble ofhaematite. A few inches beyond the north end of the gravewas another incense-cup with a few scattered burnt bones, with. Flu. .-M.—Buiio Loads, Folkton, E. K. Yorks. similar urnament but of inferior fabric. It had, however, a pecu-liarity of very rare occurrence in this country. The decorativeincisions, produced probably by a bronze pricker, have been filledin with some white material like finely powdered chalk, probablyapplied in a semi-liquid state, like the slip of Eomau and latertimes. Among the ashes covering the bones were six unl^urnt flintflakes, and amung the sarsen-stones of the cairn were many ROUND BARROWS 63 bones of ox and pig, some teeth of oxen, two flint arrow-heads,one being barbed and unburnt, the other triangular and partiallycalcined; and the end of a boars tusk which had apparently beentashioned. In the earth above the caiin were nine sherds ofpottery, including two pieces of large thong-marked vessels, andpart ot a dnnking-cup filled in with white like the incense-
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