An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . ts of deerhorn :bronze scabbards and ornaments, among the latter beingfour fibuke of La Tene 111 type, pins and rings, objectsof bone and stone, like combs, sjiindle whorls, and portionsof more than 100 querns or millstones, some of them withthe ground corn still in \\\ : parts of the tyres of chariotwheels, bridle bits and three shield bosses. There wereremains of animal life in the shape of human bones, and LATE KELTIC POTTERY 315 those of animals such as the red and roe deer, short-hornedox, goat, horse, pig and dog. The pottery is wholly
An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . ts of deerhorn :bronze scabbards and ornaments, among the latter beingfour fibuke of La Tene 111 type, pins and rings, objectsof bone and stone, like combs, sjiindle whorls, and portionsof more than 100 querns or millstones, some of them withthe ground corn still in \\\ : parts of the tyres of chariotwheels, bridle bits and three shield bosses. There wereremains of animal life in the shape of human bones, and LATE KELTIC POTTERY 315 those of animals such as the red and roe deer, short-hornedox, goat, horse, pig and dog. The pottery is wholly of akind suited for domestic use. We have evidence thereforeof the former existence on this site of a settled communitypractising agriculture, weaving and making pottery fordaily use, and with it all no sign of Roman is all the more striking from the fact that at Dunston,only i^ miles distant, many Romano-British articleswere discovered alon^ with Roman coins. It was clearlya British settlement of the Early Iron Age, a conclusion. Fig. 312.—Late Keltic pottery. Hunsbury Camp. confirmed by the Late Keltic decoration of the two scab-bards (Fig. 276) and on ^^pottery. Remains of more than400 vessels of different form and size have been these eighteen are complete, or -nearly so. It is alldark grey or dark brown in colour and unglazed. Thefragments are for the most part plain, but a few of them, offiner ware, are ornamented with spiral designs characteris-tically late Keltic. These are all the more noticeable be-cause they are moulded in lines and dots showing gracefulreturning spirals (Fig. 312). Pieces of one bowl are 3i6 PREHISTORIC ART ornamented with a pattern composed of lozenges andtriangles filled in with incised lines : it is divided by twoparallel lines running round the vessel slightly suggestiveof the cordoned pottery about to be mentioned.^ Glastonbury Lake Village offers still more strikingevidence of an Early Iron Age settlement. In a m
Size: 2014px × 1241px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookidintroduction, bookyear1915
