CHAP, xii.] BURIAL CUSTOMS. 431 



used as an ornament, and may be looked upon as a 

 survival from the Bronze age. 



These barrows are considered by Dr. Thurnam to be 

 those of Gallic tribes, and to range in antiquity from a 

 century before, to a century after Christ. They give a 

 vivid picture of the burial customs of the time ; the 

 warrior and the hunter were sent off on their last long 

 journey in their chariots and with their horses, and in 

 some other cases, such as that at Aspatria in Cumber - 

 ]and, with their swords, as well as with trophies of the 

 chase ; while the women were buried with ornaments 

 which would render them conspicuous in the world of 

 spirits. 



These discoveries, made in the years 1816-17, have 

 recently been followed up by the exploration of another 

 barrow in the neighbourhood, by the Rev. W. Green well, 1 

 in which he found a skeleton in a contracted position, with 

 the remains of horse-trappings and two wheels of a 

 chariot, but no traces of the body of the chariot. The 

 skeleton is considered by Dr. Rolleston to be that of a 

 woman, and a small, round, iron mirror was found along 

 with it ornamented with a plating of bronze. A bronze 

 brooch of the safety-pin type has been discovered in 

 another barrow in the East Riding of Yorkshire, along 

 with solid bronze bracelets and other articles belonging 

 to the Prehistoric Iron age. 2 



One of the most remarkable discoveries of works of 

 art of foreign derivation in a burial mound was that 

 made, by Mr. John Langford in 1832, 3 in a cairn near 

 Mold in North Wales. On removing upwards of three 



1 Ancient British Barrows, p. 450. 2 Greenwell, op. cit. 209. 



3 Gage, Archceologia, xxvi. 422. Williams Ap Ithel, Archceol. (7am- 

 brensls, iii. 98. Archceol. Journ., vi. 259 ; xiv. 291. 



