WEAPONS AND IMPLEMENTS. 51 



traiy, when discovered in a barrow, and there deposited with the 

 dead, appear to be such as had been the property of the living-, 

 and had been in ordinary use. 



Weapons and implements, either of bronze or stone, are however 

 rarely found accompanying a burial. By far the g-reater number 

 of bodies, whether burnt or unburnt, have been interred without 

 anythin<^ of the kind. To show how infrequent is the occurrence 

 of such articles, it may be stated that out of 379 burials, by in- 

 humation and alter cremation, 63 had implements of flint or other 

 stone; 16, of l>ronze, one of which however was an car-ring*; and 

 4, of deer's-horn or bone ; making in all (for 5 hud articles both 

 of bronze and stone) 111 bodies which had an implement associated 

 with them, a very small proportion out of so large a number as that 

 stated above. It may be well to analyse this statement more 

 minutely. Of 301 unburnt bodies, 13 had implements of bronze, 

 including the ear-ring ; 54 had implements of flint and other stone ; 

 and 4 of deer"s-horn or boar's-tusk. Of 78 burnt bodies, 3 had 

 implements of bronze, 7 had implements of flint, 2 had each 

 an axe-hammer of greenstone, and another had two rude hammer- 

 stones laid on the lid of the cist which contained the bones. In 

 three cases where articles of bronze accompanied the body there 

 were also implements of flint, a fourth body had an axe-hammer of 

 stone and a bronze knife, and a fifth had a bronze knife-dagger 

 and a whetstone, all being unburnt bodies'. 



Ornaments and objects of personal decoration are sometimes 

 found associated with burials in the barrows'. They are how- 

 ever much less frequently discovered than weapons and imple- 

 ments, and appear to be confined to those of women, at least in the 

 barrows of the wolds. They accompany burials after cremation, 

 as w^ell as those by inhumation. When met with in association 

 Avith a burnt body, in many cases they have not been burnt with 



^ In one of these cases it is impossible to say of what nature the article had been, 

 for the former presence of the metal was only indicated by the green stain on the 

 cheek-bone, arising from the oxidation of the bronze. 



^ In the large series of Wiltshire baiTows opened by Sir R. Colt Hoare, twice as 

 many burials were associated with bronze as with stone. On account of the want 

 of care which characterises Mr. Bateman's records of the examination of Derbyshire 

 barrows, it is difficult to arrive at any certain conclusion, though he appears to have 

 found more interments where stone was associated with the body than he did where 

 bronze accompanied it. 



^ Personal ornaments are not of frequent occurrence in the Wiltshire baiTows. 

 Sir R. Colt Hoare has recorded the examination of 350 burial-places of burnt and 

 unburnt bodies, and he only describes 57 as being possessed of anything in the shape 

 of ornament. 



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