ARBOR LOW EXCAVATIONS IN 19OI AND 1902. 



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monument such as this; and yet, considering the amount of 

 excavation done, the absence of bronze has some significance. 

 If Arbor Low was actually constructed in the Early Bronze 

 Age, we should not expect to find any abundance of the then 

 precious metal. Even small fragments of broken bronze would 

 not be thrown away at this period; indeed, every care would 

 be exercised to preserve fragments for the melting-pot, much 



Fig. 13. Flint knife-dagger found at Arbor Low (Lucas Collection, 

 British Museum). ^ linear. 



as we preserve all broken and disused gold objects, merely on 

 account of their value as gold. 



On the south-east vallum a Bronze Age tumulus was con- 

 structed undoubtedly from material derived from the original 

 monument of Arbor Low. As previously stated, no bronze 

 was found here or in Gib Hill, just over 1 ,000 feet distant ; 

 but their other contents point to a Bronze Age culture, 



