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Title: The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Evans, John, Sir, 1823-1908
Subjects: Stone age
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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in made from a trunk ofan oak, together with a skeleton wrapped in woollen cloth, a bronzedagger, and other objects. Professor Worsaae attributes theseobjects to the Early Bronze Age. Mr. Kirwan has cited anotherinstance of a somewhat similar cup, found with coal-money. It is true that these instances afford no actual guide as to date,but the interments were clearly not Roman Some clue, however, * Hutchins Dorset, vol. i. p. 38. Goughs Camdens Brit., vol. i. p. 70,pi. ii. Wames Celtic Tumuli, § 3, p. 4.f Warne, I.e.X Arch. Journ., vol. xxiii. p. 35. 27 402 SPIND1-E-WHORLS, DISCS, SLICKSTONES, ETC. (CHAP. XX is afforded by the discovery of the gold cup shown in Fig. 366, notunlike this in form, in a barrow at liillaton,* Cornwall, accompaniedby what appears to have been a bronze dagger; f but the bestevidence as to the date to be assigned to this class of cups is pro-bably that of the very remarkable and beautiful specimen formedof amber, and found in a barrow at Hove,+ near Brighton.
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Bottom of Cup.Fig. 366.—Gold Cup-Rillaton, height 3f inches. In this instance an interment in an oaken coffin was accom-panied by the amber cup, here, by the kindness of the SussexArchaeological Society, reproduced, a double-edged battle-axe ofstone (see Fig. 119, p. 165), a bronze dagger, and a whetstone.This cup is 3 J inches in diameter and 2\ high, about A inch inthickness, and its capacity rather more than half a pint. It is * Arch. Join-)/., vol. xxiv. p. 189, whence the cut is borrowed. t Erroneously culled a celt by Mr. Kirwan. X Arch. Jount., vol. xiii. p. 183 ; xv. p. 90. Sussex Arch. Coll., vol. ix. p. 120. AMBER CUP. 403 perfectly smooth inside and out, and, so far as I could judge fromseeing it through glass in the Brighton Museum, it was turnedin a lathe. It has been suggested by Mr. Barclay Phillips thatsome process like that of boiling amber in spirits of turpentinemay have been known, by which it would be rendered plastic ;but this seems hardly probable. It is, of c

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