A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . Fig. 83.—Anvil, from theRhone district, France, j; Fig. 84.—Socketed celt, Avignon,Dept. Vaucluse, France. \. Fig. 85.—Dagger, La Gnillotiere, D^pt. Rhone, France, i other designs, that show connection with the Aegean culture ofthe Mediterranean. A barrow on Tolkton Wold, E. E. Yorks.,54 ft. in diameter, had been reared over a central cairn contain-ing two adult .skeletons and a drinking-cup; and round thecairn, at a distance of about 12 ft., a trench had been dug belowthe original surface. Out
A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . Fig. 83.—Anvil, from theRhone district, France, j; Fig. 84.—Socketed celt, Avignon,Dept. Vaucluse, France. \. Fig. 85.—Dagger, La Gnillotiere, D^pt. Rhone, France, i other designs, that show connection with the Aegean culture ofthe Mediterranean. A barrow on Tolkton Wold, E. E. Yorks.,54 ft. in diameter, had been reared over a central cairn contain-ing two adult .skeletons and a drinking-cup; and round thecairn, at a distance of about 12 ft., a trench had been dug belowthe original surface. Outside this, about 22 ft. from the centre,another trench had been driven at the same level, but only on theeastern half of the circle. In this trench, east of the central 90 DESCRIPTION OF CASE F cairn, was the burial containing the chalk drums, while in otherparts of the area, on or about the original level, were severalother unburnt burials, without any trace of bronze. The relativedate of the drums is therefore determined not by their position inthe barrow, but by their ornamentation. Both Canon Greenwelland Dr. Arthur Evans draw attention to similar representations ofthe human face (fig. 87, nos. 1,
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