CHAP, x.] CLOTHING AND ORNAMENTS OF BRONZE FOLK. 355 



were occasionally erected, where such material abounded 

 loose on the surface, or could be procured in the neigh- 

 bourhood without quarrying. These duns or stone forts 

 were always put together without cement, but they are 

 more of a military than a domestic nature. In the circle 

 of these forts, both stone and earthen, there existed 

 chambers and galleries which probably served as 

 granaries or places of security for the preservation of 

 valuables', and to which the young and w^eak might 

 resort in cases of invasion, or any sudden attack." 

 r:. Caves were rarely used in the Bronze age as habita- 

 tions. That at Heathery Burn 1 contained a large assort- 

 ment of bronze articles, enumerated above (p. 347), with 

 the remains of the Celtic short-horn and other animals. 

 Two human skulls, discovered at the same time, are 

 referred by Prof. Huxley to the long-headed Iberic type, 

 described in the last chapter. Bronze implements of 

 the late Bronze age have been discovered in three other 

 caves in this country, in the Cat Hole in Gower, in 

 Thor's Cave in Staffordshire, and in Cave Dale, Castleton. 



Clothing and Ornaments of the Bronze Folk in Britain. 



In attempting to picture to ourselves the men of the 

 Bronze age in Britain, it is necessary to make use of 

 articles sometimes isolated, sometimes accumulated to- 

 gether in hoards, and at others buried with the dead. 

 We will first of all deal with their personal appearance, 

 and then pass on to a consideration of their mode of life. 



The rich and the chiefs were clothed in linen, or in 

 woollen homespun, fragments of which have been dis- 

 covered by the Rev. "W. Greenwell in the Scale-house 



1 Cave-hunting, c. iv. ; Geologist, 1862 ; Proceed. Soc. Antiq. SS. ii. p. 177. 



