A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . centralone or arranged round the wall of the building, in some instanceswith a well-formed chimney in the thickness of the rude stone pounders or mullers, the mortars or basins andheavy flat stones set in the floor for grinding or breaking stoneor some hard material, presented no appearance of having beenused for preparing food. Broken quartz from the copper lode inthe neighbourhood, slag and clay-lined fireplaces, point to thesmelting of copper and iron ore ; and in this connectio
A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . centralone or arranged round the wall of the building, in some instanceswith a well-formed chimney in the thickness of the rude stone pounders or mullers, the mortars or basins andheavy flat stones set in the floor for grinding or breaking stoneor some hard material, presented no appearance of having beenused for preparing food. Broken quartz from the copper lode inthe neighbourhood, slag and clay-lined fireplaces, point to thesmelting of copper and iron ore ; and in this connection may be D 34 DESCRIPTION OF CASES 6, 7 mentioned the bronze implements (Case A) found together undera stone in one of the Ty Mawr huts, as well as a mould for castingspear-heads and celts of the same form, found in in the rude dwellings the saddle-back querns and mul-lers were of gritstone, the grinding and pounding-stones found inthe supposed workshops are of hard trap, well adapted for crushingthe ores of the district. More advanced domestic implements are found at Pen-y-Bone. Fio. 10.—Plan of workshop, Ty Mawr, Holyhead, a. fire-place ; h, plat-form ; c, hole containing sharpening-stones; d, pounding-stone; e, hole;/, fireplace and chimney ; g, rubbing-stone ; h, mortar. in connection Avitli Roman coins of the first and second centuries,as well as Samian ware and cinerary urns of Roman quern or hand-mill is generally held to have been introducedabout the Christian era, and Agricola is known to have conqueredand settled Anglesey about a. d. 78 ; but though these remains,like a carnelian intaglio found at Forth Dafarch, are undeniablyconnected with Roman civilisation, there can be no doubt as tothe much earlier date of many of the structures. Cases 6, 7. Below is a series of stone antiquities from several brochs exca-vated by Sir Francis Tress Barry near Keiss, on the coast of SCOTLAND 35 Caithness. No precise date has yet been assigned to these
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