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YORKSHIRE. EAST RIDING. 



Fig. 124. i. 



is altogether similar to one found in the same locality, and described 

 at p. 228, and much like to another described at p. 230. Below 

 the ring- was a plain jet button, 1| in. in diameter, and in shape 

 like fig. 124, placed face upwards ; and again below that a second 



button, lying with the face downwards 

 [fig. 124] ; this last, as will be seen 

 from the figure, is vety beautifully en- 

 graved with a cross pattern, and cor- 

 responds very closely with one found at 

 Thwing, and figured p. 33. A little 

 nearer to the face were two articles, a 

 ' flint and steel ' [fig. 31], not hitherto 

 Noticed as such in their relative capacities, 

 though they have been before found with 

 ancient British interments. The steel 

 had been made from a round nodule of 

 iron pyrites, split in half; the flint was 

 placed below the split nodule, which rested Upon it, the flat surface 

 being downwards; the flint is 2i in. long and f in. square. Both 

 show signs of continued use in their worn and 

 snioothened edges, but the spark of fire seems 

 principally to have been obtained by rubbing the 

 end of the flint along the flat face of the nodule, 

 which is worn into a considerable groove in con- 

 sequence. The nodule has had a portion ground 

 off on the rounded surface, probably in order to 

 remove a projecting piece which rendered it in- 

 convenient to handle. Still nearer to the face, 

 the point however directed away from it, lay a 

 bronze knife-dagger [fig. 125], resting on some 

 substance which has the appearance of moss. This 

 implement is 4|^ in. long, and If in. wide at the 

 point where the handle has joined the blade in 

 the usual semilunar form, and where it has been 

 fixed by three bronze rivets, the two sides having 

 been further fastened together by two additional 

 rivets, one of which is figured with the blade. 

 The handle had been made of ox-horn, the impression left by 



Fig. 125. ^. 



Stone Implements, p. 239. Some implements evidently whetstones, at times per- 

 forated, have heen met with in the Wiltshire barrows, and now and then accomiianying 

 bronze knife-daggers. 



