. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. s of the SussexArchaeological Society, reproduced, a double-edged battle-axe ofstone (see Fig. 119, p. 165), a bronze dagger, and a cup is 3 J inches in diameter and 2\ high, about A inch inthickness, and its capacity rather more than half a pint. It is * Arch. Join-)/., vol. xxiv. p. 189, whence the cut is borrowed. t Erroneously culled a celt by Mr. Kirwan. X Arch. Jount., vol. xiii. p. 183 ; xv. p. 90. Sussex Arch. Coll., vol. ix. p. 120. AMBER CUP. 403 perfectly smooth inside and out, and, so far as I
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. s of the SussexArchaeological Society, reproduced, a double-edged battle-axe ofstone (see Fig. 119, p. 165), a bronze dagger, and a cup is 3 J inches in diameter and 2\ high, about A inch inthickness, and its capacity rather more than half a pint. It is * Arch. Join-)/., vol. xxiv. p. 189, whence the cut is borrowed. t Erroneously culled a celt by Mr. Kirwan. X Arch. Jount., vol. xiii. p. 183 ; xv. p. 90. Sussex Arch. Coll., vol. ix. p. 120. AMBER CUP. 403 perfectly smooth inside and out, and, so far as I could judge fromseeing it through glass in the Brighton Museum, it was turnedin a lathe. It has been suggested by Mr. Barclay Phillips thatsome process like that of boiling amber in spirits of turpentinemay have been known, by which it would be rendered plastic ;but this seems hardly probable. It is, of course, possible that such an object as this mayhave come by commerce into Britain; and, indeed, amber isone of the articles mentioned bv Strabo as exported from Celtic. Handle of 367. - Hove. Gaul to this country. In the case of the shale cups, however,the evidence seems in favour of their having been articles of homemanufacture, and we shall shortly see to what an extent jet wasused here in early times for ornamental purposes. Vessels without handles were also occasionally formed of or seven of these, of various sizes and forms, were discoveredin a kist-vaen in the island of Unst,* and are now for the mostpart in the British Museum. Four of them were of a rude quad-rangular form, with flat bottoms, and from 8J to 7 inches in * Mem. Anthrop. Soc. lond., vol. i. p. 296, pi. i. Proc. Soc. 2nd S., vol. 51. 404 SPINDhE-WHORLS, DISCS, SLICKSTONES, ETC. [CHAP. XX. height. The other three were oval. They were formed of schistoserock, and some of them still hear traces of the action of Franks, with reference to these vessels, has stated that ston
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