An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . Fig. 285.—Chariot burial. La Gorge Meillet (Marne). with red figures on a black ground, the Greek kylix, re-ferable to the fifth or fourth century , and thus affordingevidence of the date of the- burial. The relics of thischariot burial are now preserved in the British Museum. 1 See Brit. Mus. Guide—Early Iron Age, Plates II and III. LATE KELTIC ART 275 Some connexion between these chariot burials and thoseof Yorkshire is sug-gested by Arras being a place name inthis part of France, and by the presence in Yorkshire inBritish times of a trib

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An introduction to the study of prehistoric art . Fig. 285.—Chariot burial. La Gorge Meillet (Marne). with red figures on a black ground, the Greek kylix, re-ferable to the fifth or fourth century , and thus affordingevidence of the date of the- burial. The relics of thischariot burial are now preserved in the British Museum. 1 See Brit. Mus. Guide—Early Iron Age, Plates II and III. LATE KELTIC ART 275 Some connexion between these chariot burials and thoseof Yorkshire is sug-gested by Arras being a place name inthis part of France, and by the presence in Yorkshire inBritish times of a tribe known as Parisii, The most important discovery of Horse Xrappings ofthis period in Britain was one which at first appeared tohave no connexion with this form of burial. It was made atStanwick, seven miles north of Richmond, in Yorkshire,not far from the River Tees, where no sign of any barrow.

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