A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . ) in association with a burnt body inBerkshire. The bracer (fig. 95) from Brandon was found withvessels exhibited in Case 19 ; and another, with only two holes,was found with a primitive tanged knife and a carved ornamentof bone in a grave at Sittingbourne. On a small dagger fromLambourn Down are clear traces of a textile, and an interestinggroup from Great Shefford in the same county is here shown,including an open incense-cup (fig. 96) and flint scrapers. Asexcejitional relics from barrows in
A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . ) in association with a burnt body inBerkshire. The bracer (fig. 95) from Brandon was found withvessels exhibited in Case 19 ; and another, with only two holes,was found with a primitive tanged knife and a carved ornamentof bone in a grave at Sittingbourne. On a small dagger fromLambourn Down are clear traces of a textile, and an interestinggroup from Great Shefford in the same county is here shown,including an open incense-cup (fig. 96) and flint scrapers. Asexcejitional relics from barrows in this country should be noticedthe flanged celt from Plumpton, and the socketed spear-head fromanother barrow near Lewes. The simple bronze cylinders andother beads of glass from the Devils Dyke, Brighton, were found 94 DESCRIPTION OF CASE F on the neck of a skeleton, the grave also containing a drinking-cup (Case 19). To the rigJit, remains from Wiltshire illustrate the peculiarrichness of that countj\ From the same grave as the ambernecklace came a pair of gold earrings, and a number of ribbed.
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