38 Revieivs — The Bateman Collection in the Sheffield Museum. 



Derbyshire, from 1759 to 184:7, assisted by Mr. Samuel Carringtou 

 in Staffordshire, Mr. James Euddock in the North Eidiug of York- 

 shire, Mr. Stephen Glover in Derbyshire, and Mr. Samuel Mitchell 

 of Sheffield, an antiquary of wide erudition. 



Following the Collection, the Catalogue is arranged as under, viz. : 



Celtic Period : Stone and bronze weapons and utensils, Nos. 1-526, 

 pp. 1-89 ; urns and other pottery, Nos. 757-896, pp. 91-156 • 

 miscellaneous objects, crania, querns, Nos. 897-985, pp. 157- 

 174 ; tools, personal ornaments, Nos. 527-598, pp. 175-190. 



Eomano-British Period : Nos. 599-687 and 986-1117, pp. 191-218. 



Anglo-Saxon Period : Nos. 688-756, pp. 219-231. 



Miscellaneous Objects ; Nos. 1118-1288, pp. 232-254. 



In his excellent Introduction Mr. Howarth observes that : '•'Eecords- 

 of the dead are almost the only means whereby any reliable account 

 can be constructed of the life and customs of the earliest inhabitants 

 of Britain, with whom writing was unknown ; pictorial art, if not 

 quite beyond their skill, was of the simplest kind, and their 

 dwellings were of such a temporary and unsubstantial character that 

 all traces of them vanished before the historical period. The care 

 of the dead forms their most lasting memorials, and it is thes& 

 sepultural mounds that furnish the principal information respecting 

 the early Britons. Derbyshire has contained many conspicuous 

 examples of ancient barrows, tumuli, or grave-mounds, and, 

 fortunately, amongst the Bateman family there were men of leisure^ 

 means, and knowledge, with the taste for exploring these sepulchral- 

 storehouses and carefully preserving them ; and it was chiefly owing 

 to the labours of Mr. Thomas Bateman that the collection which 

 bore his family name w^as formed." (p. v.) 



"Under the Celtic Period are grouped all those objects found in 

 the burial-places, or in any way associated with the ancient Britons, 

 ■whether belonging to the round-headed or long-headed races, two 

 distinct types which may have sprung from two different groups 

 afterwards associated together. Authorities agree in regarding tlifr 

 earliest race inhabiting these islands as Celts, and as the exact 

 indications of time are few there is the freer scope for the imagina- 

 tion. Let us take it, then, that 1600 years before Christ, Britain 

 was inhabited by a Celtic race of long-headed men of low mental 

 development and small stature. The Phoenicians traded with Britain 

 for tin, lead, and skins, 600 years before Christ ; and about 500 b.c. 

 Hecatus, a Greek writer, describes Britain as an island opposite the^ 

 coast of Gaul about as large as Sicily. 



"In or about the year 350 b.c. the Belga?, a tribe descended from 

 the Scythians, invaded the island. They were men of larger stature^ 

 than the Celts, their heads were round rather than long, and they 

 were inured to the dangers and hardships of wai*. The Belgfe^ 

 conquered and occupied the southern and south-western counties, 

 driving the Celts to the north and north-west. When the Eomans- 

 invaded the island, first in 55 b.c. under Julius C^sar, and about 

 a century later in the reign of Claudius, the Belga^ were the tribes. 



