A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . k, E. R. Yorks. 1 ^^:--_ :::Cfiv Fig. 34.—Knife-dag-ger with remains ofhandle, Helperthorpe,E. R. Yorks. l wood-ashes. no doubt collected from the funeral pile. At thesouth end lay the inceuse-cup (Case 2o. fig. ob) and whaseems to have been its cover. Both part^ were foundmuch broken but in a clayey mass together : and the Icnver poi-tion is very similar to one from Beckhampton, Wilts. (Case 17).The ware is good but soft, and the ornament, which to the bottom and the inside


A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . k, E. R. Yorks. 1 ^^:--_ :::Cfiv Fig. 34.—Knife-dag-ger with remains ofhandle, Helperthorpe,E. R. Yorks. l wood-ashes. no doubt collected from the funeral pile. At thesouth end lay the inceuse-cup (Case 2o. fig. ob) and whaseems to have been its cover. Both part^ were foundmuch broken but in a clayey mass together : and the Icnver poi-tion is very similar to one from Beckhampton, Wilts. (Case 17).The ware is good but soft, and the ornament, which to the bottom and the inside of the —, is the period. The upper part is, however much thicker, latheiclurnsy as a cover, and evidently intended for suspension, as the 62 DESCRIPTION OF CASES 21-30 knob is pierced. Among the burnt bones were also pieces ofa small bronze knife and of two bronze awls, all having apparentlypassed through the funeral fire. Seven beads were also found,three of pale-green glass-paste (like fig. 97), two of amber, abarrel-shaped specimen of lignite, and one made from the stem of.


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