12 Notes on the Opcmnrj of n Bronze Aye Barrow at j\[anton. 



to be disturljed before it could be removed with safety. It was 

 lying on its side tilted towards tlie skeleton ; it had, however, 

 probably been placed in an upright position, and only tilted for- 

 ward as the bones collapsed. 



The incense cup was also at the back of the skeleton ; it was 

 1ft. to l^ft. behind the Grape Cup on a slightly higher level, and 

 apparently must have been placed there after the l)ody had been 

 at least partially buried. 



The dagger blade lay some Sin. in front of the feet. Vestiges 

 of its wooden handle were discernible, and fragments of the wood 

 still adhered to the rivets. The handle had been about 4in. in 

 length, and thus only long enough to admit of its being grasped in 

 the hand. The three bronze awls were close together behind the 

 dagger, to the front of which were the three single beads. The 

 stud was near the chin, in such a position as at once to suggest 

 that it had been used to fasten a garment of some sort round the 

 neck. 



Lying near each other and from 6in. to Sin. from the head were 

 the disc of gold and amber, the spherical bead, the gold-handled 

 lancet, a small bronze blade and amber pommel, and the jet and 

 amber beads. The beads had certainly been threaded together, 

 and lay in rows embedded in the clay ; the rows lay over one 

 another as though the string of beads had been deposited in a little 

 heap and not laid out in any order. They were not round the 

 neck. Some of the beads were stained with bronze from actual 

 contact with the small bronze blade. 



The gi'ound immediately above and beneath the skeleton was of 

 a clayey and highly tenacious substance, and very favourable for 

 receiving and retaining impressions. This clay was hrst loosened 

 with a small sharp mason's trowel, and then removed with the 

 hand. On the clay that had been in contact with the skeleton, 

 both on the upper and the under side, a distinctly reticulated 

 pattern was quite plainly visible. Apparently the body had been 

 wrapped in some coarsely woven material, and though nearly every 

 particle of this cloth had disappeared, a visible proof of its former 

 presence was afforded by the impression that its threads had left 



