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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
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anufacture. It is generally of a yellowcolour and of thin, well-baked ware, superior to that found in thiscountry. The collection was made by Dr. Klemm of Dresden,and is derived from various sites in Saxony and Lower Lausitz. Two groujis of urn-fields dating from the Bronze age are dis-tinguished in this .area, and of these the first is characterised byvases with conical bases (Buckel-urnen, plate vi, 2); by oval-bodiedvases with spreading lip (13); and by a doubly conical form, theupper part deeper than the base (1), and decorated with incisedlines. The second group comprises vai^ious shapes, which arefrequently ornamented by fluting (6, 10, 12), while the inside ofthe rim is sometimes facetted as in our own food-vessels. Linearornament consists mainly of concentric semicircles and hatchedtriangles (6, 9), while one example on the plate (4) has besidesthis ornament a thin partition wliich is characteristic of the group.It has been thought that the BwJ;el-nn)en and derivatives are the
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0—1 2—5 In. Plate VI. Sepulchkal PorrEiiY, rr.oM the Continent.Cases 31-36, xer p. 64.) GERMANY, DENMARK, AND SPAIN 65 earlier ; but, according to Prof. Deiclnniiller of Dresden, it maybe that the difference is merely geographical—the first groujioccurring in the urn-fields of east and north-east Saxony, whilethe second belongs to the west and north-west, and is related to the Bronze age ware of West Germany. The second group issaid not to occur in East Saxony, but both are represented in theElbe valley. A bell-shaped beaker from the neighbourhood ofBuda-Pesth is included in the plate (7) as a prototype of oneform of drinking-cup in this country, though itself doubtless ofthe neolithic period. Another form of drinking-cup bears aremarkable resemblance to an early example from Merseburg (8),and is well represented in Cases 19, 22. Antiquities of bronze from Germany are in Ca^e G (p. 051. DENMARK: Case 36. Most of the Danish pottery belonging to the Bronze age wasfound in graves of

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