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beads of darts or javelins [fig. .30] ; ' flint and steel' [fig. 31] ; and 

 numerous enigmatical articles, the use of which it is not easy to 

 make out. What may be called an implement of stone, a wrist 

 guard [fig. 32], to protect the arm against the recoil of the bow- 

 string, has been found so near to the wolds that it may be included 

 amongst the articles met with in the wold barrows. It was dis- 

 covered in a cist at Kelleythorpe, near Driffield, and was placed on 



Fig. 12. 



Fig. 13. 4. 



the wrist of a skeleton, with which a bronze knife-dagger, amber 

 buttons, and a ' drinking cup ' were associated l . 



1 Archaeologia, vol. xxxiv. p. 254. Wrist-guards have occurred in connection with 

 an interment of an unbumt body in several instances. In Wiltshire, on Roundway 

 Down, near Devizes, Crania Brit. pi. 42; and near Button, Hoare, Ancient Wilts, 

 vol. i. p. 103. In Hertfordshire, near Tring, Archaeologia, vol. viii. p. 429, pi. xxx. 

 In Suffolk, near Brandon this guard is now in the Christy Collection. In Scotland, 

 they have been met with in the Isle of Skye, Wilson, Prehistoric Annals of Scotland, 

 vol. i. p. 223 ; near Cruden, Aberdeenshire, 1. c., vol. i. p. 76 ; and near Evantown, Ross- 

 shire, Proc. Soc. Ant. of Scotland, vol. vi. p. 233. They have also been found casually 

 in other places in Great Britain and Ireland. They have been discovered in Denmark, 

 associated with burials. See also Evans, Stone Impl. p. 380. 



