CHAP. xii.] BURIAL CUSTOMS. 429 



Britons as among the Gauls, in the shape of ornaments 

 easily hidden and carried about, and this practice may 



FIG. 158. Bronze Head-ring, Stitchel. 



perhaps account for the statement of Herodotus 1 as to 

 the large quantity of gold in the northern parts of 

 Europe. It was probably the hoarded wealth of ages. 



Burial Customs. 



With the introduction of iron a change took place in 

 the burial customs in Britain. Cremation was carried 

 on, but the dead were frequently interred at full length 

 in a stone chamber or shallow pit, along with various 

 articles used in daily life. We may take as an example 

 of interments belonging to this age the group of circular 

 barrows at Arras, 2 near Market Weighton, explored by 

 the Eev. E. W. Stillingfleet. In a shallow pit at the 

 base of one of these, named the Barrow of the Charioteer, 



1 iii. c. 1 1 6. 2 Thurnam and Davis, Crania Britannica, Pt. xii. 



