. British barrows: a record of the examination of sepulchral mounds in various parts of England. Mounds -- England; Craniology -- Great Britain; England -- Antiquities. 54 INTBODUCTIOX. The barrows of Wiltshire have, however, produced many more articles of personal decoration, and those of more varied and costly materials, than the wold barrows. At the same time there are many points of very close resemblance between the contents of the sepulchral mounds of the two districts. In both are found perforated axe-hammers of stone; knife-dag-gers of. Fig. 50. '.. bronze and flint; barbed flint arrow
. British barrows: a record of the examination of sepulchral mounds in various parts of England. Mounds -- England; Craniology -- Great Britain; England -- Antiquities. 54 INTBODUCTIOX. The barrows of Wiltshire have, however, produced many more articles of personal decoration, and those of more varied and costly materials, than the wold barrows. At the same time there are many points of very close resemblance between the contents of the sepulchral mounds of the two districts. In both are found perforated axe-hammers of stone; knife-dag-gers of. Fig. 50. '.. bronze and flint; barbed flint arrow-points; axes and awls of bronze; buttons and ring's of jet; beads of bone, with almost identical patterns upon them; not to speak of the vessels of pottery. If the contents of the burial-hills are to be taken in evidence, and they aff'ord the most certain we possess, the people who dwelt upon the wolds of Yorkshire appear to have been in a humbler condition and to have liad less intercourse with other. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Greenwell, William, 1820-1918; Rolleston, George, 1829-1881. Oxford : Clarendon press
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