Identifier: cu31924029929233 (find matches)
Title: A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of British and mediæval antiquities and ethnology Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929
Subjects: Bronze age
Publisher: (London) : Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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mthe earliest (shaft) graves at Mycenae, and the double horse-shoe (fig. 87, no. 1 a) recalls the remarkable sculptures at New Grange,Co. Meath, and Gavrinis, Brittany. Above all, the degeneratereturning spirals (fig. 87, no. 2 a) are a reminiscence of Aegeanart, and everything points to the transmission of that influenceto the British Isles by way of Spain. ^IThe barrow at Kelleythorpe, Driffield, E. E. Yorks., containedas many as ten burials, but none cremated : with one were founda food-vessel and the bone object exhibited, and this may havebeen earlier than the cist, which was below the original surface(like fig. 27), and contained a crouching skeleton. On the rightwrist was the bracer (bowmans wrist-guard), which was fastenedwith a strap and small bronze buckle, the latter being found BRITISH BARROWS 91 underneath the bones. At the l.iack of the body were the bronzedagger and a drinking-cup/ while round the neck had beenattached three amber beads, with the under side flat and the
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