360 EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. [CHAP. x. 



ture of woollens was not commonly carried on in Europe 

 in the Bronze age, because the cloth has been so rarely 

 discovered. 



Agriculture and Farming. 



The domestic animals in the Bronze age in Britain 

 were of the breeds introduced in the Neolithic age. 

 The corn was probably the same, but possibly the 

 oats and beans, which appear for the first time in the 

 lake-dwellings of the Bronze age in Switzerland, may 

 have also found their way to Britain. The harvest was 



gathered in with reaping- 

 hooks (Fig. 126) of the 

 small kind used for cutting 

 off the ears, after the man- 

 ner universal among the 

 Greeks and Komans. In 

 the sketches of various 



FIG. 126. Bronze Reaping-hook, Tay. . .-, ,. ,, 



scenes in the lite 01 the 



Bronze folk in Scandinavia, the horse was employed 

 both for riding and driving, and oxen were used for 

 ploughing. This is likely to have been the case in 

 Britain. 



Pottery. Cups of Gold and Amber. 



The pottery was made by the hand, and ornamented 

 with various patterns in dots and right lines. It con- 

 sisted of drinking cups of various sorts (see Fig. 127), 

 cooking pots, cinerary urns, and small vessels, used for 

 containing incense or sacred fire (Fig. 128). These were 

 probably made in Britain. It is, however, an open 

 question whether a gold cup, found at Eillaton, 1 in Corn- 



1 Archceologia, xliii. Proceed. Soc. Antiq. SS. iii. 517. 



