A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . and and Scot-land, those in the counties of Ayr, Dumfries, and Wigtownhavino- proved archaeologically the most valuable, but they arealso known in England and Wales. The most striking English 144 DESCKIPTIOX OF CASES N, 75, 76 examples are perhaps those excavated by Mr. Thomas Boyntonin 1880, at Hoklerness in Yorkshire, where, as has )3een aheadystated, both stone and bronze implements were found. The lake-dwellings of these islands were not, however, confinedto the crannog type. At Barton Mere
A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . and and Scot-land, those in the counties of Ayr, Dumfries, and Wigtownhavino- proved archaeologically the most valuable, but they arealso known in England and Wales. The most striking English 144 DESCKIPTIOX OF CASES N, 75, 76 examples are perhaps those excavated by Mr. Thomas Boyntonin 1880, at Hoklerness in Yorkshire, where, as has )3een aheadystated, both stone and bronze implements were found. The lake-dwellings of these islands were not, however, confinedto the crannog type. At Barton Mere, near Bury St. Edmunds,the huts had been built on piles, after the Central Europeanmanner, and here socketed bronze spear-heads occurred. Otherpile-dwellings have been explored at Newbury in Berks., Southwarkand London Wall in the Metropolis, and at Glastonbury, butthese are chiefly of too late a date for treatment in a Guideconfined to the Bronze age. MOREL COLLECTION: FRANCE. In the southern or Gaulish wing of the Central Saloon, on theway to the Gold Ornament Room, is arranged the collection. kWffiiBwwwuapif ^•:n%S^ Fig. lyi;. —Spear-liiad with pic-rcecl blades, France. } formed by M. Leon Morel, of Rheims. In Table-case jST isa series of bronze swords with chapes either tapering like fig. 14,or of the winged type (fig. ), in exaggerated form. The latterbelong to the Hallstatt period, and that from Joncquieres, Vau-cluse, has a width of 9i in. Attention should also be directed tothe objects found with the sword at Courtavant, Aube, and to thecurved mark of the scabbard-mouth on the blade. In Wall-cases 75. 76, on the main shelf, are other antiquities ofthe Bronze ago from this collection, all being from the Champagnedistrict or the Ijower Rhone, except two primitive copper daggersof a well-known form from Cyprus (like fig. 117). A small seriesof celts contains examples of most of the French forms, and arearranged in their probable chronological order, beginning on t
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