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EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. 



[CHAP. xrr. 



hundred cart-loads of stones a skeleton was discovered laid 

 at full length, wearing a corselet of beautifully-wrought 

 gold, Figs. 159, 160, which had been placed on a lining 

 of bronze. Close by were upwards of three hundred 



amber beads as well as 

 traces of corroded iron. 

 The corselet is formed of 

 a thin plate of gold, three 



feet seven inches long, 



t>> 



eight inches wide in the 

 centre, and weighing seven- 

 teen ounces, arid is orna- 

 mented in repousse with 

 nail-head and dotted-line 

 pattern. It is a work of 

 Etruskan art, as we shall 

 see in the next chapter, 

 and not of local manufac- 

 ture, like the breastplates 

 of great value stated by 



FIGS. 159, 160. Golden Corselet, Mold, North Wales. 



Polybius to have been made and worn by the natives 

 of Gaul. 1 An urn full of ashes, about three yards 

 off, may have belonged to an interment of the same 



1 ii. c. 11. 



