An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . FiG. 173.—Neolithic bowl. Orkney. ness and Sutherland similar pottery has been discovered inseveral chambered cairns.^ It will be observed that thesevessels, like that from Norton Bavant, are round bottomed, 1 J. Anderson, in Pagan Times—Stone Age, Lecture V,Figs. 261-3, 274-9. Figs. 171-3 are taken from this work. 142 PREHISTORIC ART. Fig. 174.—Neolithic a feature which has been regarded as a Neolithic character-istic. Similar round-bottomed ware has been recoveredfrom the Thames (Fig. 174) at Mortlake and Wallingford
An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . FiG. 173.—Neolithic bowl. Orkney. ness and Sutherland similar pottery has been discovered inseveral chambered cairns.^ It will be observed that thesevessels, like that from Norton Bavant, are round bottomed, 1 J. Anderson, in Pagan Times—Stone Age, Lecture V,Figs. 261-3, 274-9. Figs. 171-3 are taken from this work. 142 PREHISTORIC ART. Fig. 174.—Neolithic a feature which has been regarded as a Neolithic character-istic. Similar round-bottomed ware has been recoveredfrom the Thames (Fig. 174) at Mortlake and Wallingford, and found in Derbyshire, theEast Riding of Yorkshire, andelsewhere. An attempt hasbeen made to show that theBronze Age food vessel wasa later development of thisNeolithic form.^ It is from the RoundBarrows that pottery has beenchiefly obtained in Britain, andat least the greater part of it is referable to the BronzeAge, some no doubt to a very early period of that fact the oldest form of ceramic from these barrows isthe so-called Drinking Cup which few venture to dateearlier than the beginning of the Bronze Age. It will beconsidered when we come to that period. From the varietyof its shape, the thinness of its ware, and the character ofits ornamentation, it cannot be a very primitive form, andmust therefore have been preceded by earlier and simplerproducts of the potters ar
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