. British barrows: a record of the examination of sepulchral mounds in various parts of England. Mounds -- England; Craniology -- Great Britain; England -- Antiquities. 32 IXTEODUCTION. of the nature of a shroud. The association of weapons, implements, and ornaments, in cases where they occur, may be fairly considered to presuppose the presence of g-arments. The knowledge we pos- sess upon the subject, from the evidence afforded by the wold bar- rows, may be further augmented by an account of some of the discoveries which have been made in other districts in Britain, as well as in countries be
. British barrows: a record of the examination of sepulchral mounds in various parts of England. Mounds -- England; Craniology -- Great Britain; England -- Antiquities. 32 IXTEODUCTION. of the nature of a shroud. The association of weapons, implements, and ornaments, in cases where they occur, may be fairly considered to presuppose the presence of g-arments. The knowledge we pos- sess upon the subject, from the evidence afforded by the wold bar- rows, may be further augmented by an account of some of the discoveries which have been made in other districts in Britain, as well as in countries beyond its limits. Remains of woollen and leathern ^ garments have been found in cists and graves ; and buttons and other fastenings have remained undecayed in many cases where the dress to which they were attached has perished. In a barrow at Scale House, in Craven, numerous fragments of woollen fabric [fig. 2], the remains, no doubt, of the dress in which the body had been in- terred, were met with in a hollowed oak-tree trunk. The presence of charred cloth amongst burnt bones, with other articles, such as a kind of fibula of bone, connected with the dress, Fig. 2. i. shows that the body was in some cases, if not always, placed on the funeral pile in the garments worn during life. The evidence, however, is much stronger which is afforded by the contents of some tree-coffins of the bronze age found in Den- mark. In one instance there the whole dress was found complete, and has been preserved, and it shows, in the long catalogue of cap, cloak, shirt, leggings, and probabl}^ boots, that the wardrobe of these ancient people was by no means slenderly provided. As to the make and shape of the dress which w^as worn by the occupiers of the wolds, the barrows give us no information; the only facts that we learn from the burials are, that these people, as might be expected, notwithstanding the popular notion about our naked and painted predecessors, wore clothes, and that sometimes, if n
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