examination of the barrows of South Wilts. In one near Woodyates[1] a skeleton in a contracted position was buried with a bronze dagger and pin or awl, a jet button and pulley-like ornament, four arrow-heads (one of them engraved as Fig. 320), and "some pieces of flint, chipped and prepared for similar weapons; in another bowl-sbaped barrow at Wilsford an interment of burnt bones was accompanied by a small bronze dagger, some whetstones, and instrmnents formed of stag's horn, an arrow-head of flint, and another in an unfinished condition."
It is stated in the Archæologia[2] that with the well-known interment in the hollowed oak-trunk found in the Gristhorpe tumulus, near Scarborough, were "a brass and a flint spear-head and flint arrow-heads," &c. The flints[3] were, however, in this instance, merely flakes and the "brass spear-head" a bronze dagger.
In Borther Low,[4] near Middleton, Derbyshire, Mr. Bateman found by the side of a skeleton a flint arrow-head, a pair of canine teeth of fox or dog, and a diminutive bronze celt; and in a barrow on Roundway Hill,[5] North Wilts, a barbed flint arrow-head, like Fig. 327, was found close to the skull of a skeleton in a contracted posture, with a tanged bronze dagger at its left hand. Another bronze fragment, and a small plate of chlorite slate engraved as Fig. 355, were found at the same time. Similar plates, as well as flint arrow-heads, accompanied the skeleton at Tring Grove,[6] Herts, and an interment at Cruden, Aberdeen.[7]
A stemmed and barbed arrow-head of calcined flint was found in one of the urns containing burnt bones in the cemetery at Standlake,[8] Oxfordshire. In another urn was a spiral finger-ring of bronze, the only fragment of metal brought to light during the excavations.
Flint arrow-heads have been so frequently found in barrows containing both burnt and unburnt interments, and in company with other implements of stone and with pottery, that it seems needless to adduce all the recorded instances of such discoveries. I give a few references below.[9]
- ↑ "South Wilts," p. 239.
- ↑ Vol. xxx. p. 460.
- ↑ See "Cran. Brit.," pl. 52, p. 9
- ↑ "Vest. of the Ant. of Derbysh.," p. 48.
- ↑ "Cran. Brit.," vol. ii. pl. xlii. p. 3, Wilts Arch. and N. H. Mag., vol. iii. p. 185.
- ↑ Arch., vol. viii. p. 429; supra, p. 383.
- ↑ "Cat. Arch. Inst. Mus. Ed.," p. 11. Wilson, "Preh. Ann.," vol. i. p. 224.
- ↑ Arch., vol. xxxvii. p. 369.
- ↑ Arch. Journ., vol. xvi. p. 151; xxii. p. 249. "Ten Years' Diggings," pp. 60, 95, 96, 116, 127, 167, 178, &c. Arch. Assoc. Journ., vol. iv. p. 103; vii. 215. Arch., vol. xxxi. p. 304. "Salisb. Vol. Arch. Inst.," pp. 25—105, Hoare's "South Wilts," pp. 182—211. Greenwell's "British Barrows," passim.
