^4 Notes 071 Implements of the Bronze Age found in Wiltshire. 



Period V. 



To Period V. belong the later Palstaves, and the bulk of the 

 rocketed implements, Celts, Hammers, Chisels, Gouges, Daggers, 

 Spearheads, often with crescent openings in the blade, Knives, and 

 Sickles. Also i)road-bladed tanged Chisels and Gouges, Leaf-shaped 

 Swords and Scabbard tips, one-edged Knives, Razors, Shields, 

 Trumpets, Bridle Bits, Pins, Gold Bracelets, and King Money, 

 Bronze Bowls, and tanged Knives. 



Dr. Montelius regards the burials of Periods 1. — III. as being 

 either by cremation or inhumation and as being for the most part 

 in barrows. The burials of Period IV. are by cremation in barrows 

 .and cairns, or in cemeteries without barrows. Those of Period Y. 

 are by cremation in barrows, or in cemeteries, with or without urns. 

 But it is to be remarked that for this last period he can only pro- 

 duce in all three examples of burials from Scotland, and none at 

 all from England. Again, so far as Wiltshire is concerned, it may 

 safely be said that not one out of the hundreds of barrows in the 

 county, of the opening of which we have records, can be with any 

 certainty assigned to any period later than the first three ; that 

 is to say, that so far as the evidence of the "finds" goes, we have 

 nothing to show that in Wiltshire we have any burials of the period 

 between 1400 and 800 B.C. It was during these six hundred 

 years that the later types of Bronze implements, especially the 

 socketed types, Celts, Gouges, Spearheads, and the Rapiers and 

 Leaf -shaped Swords and Daggers were in use. There is no sign 

 of the presence of any of these implements in the barrows of 

 Wiltshire,^ or any evidence that there are in the county any 



^ It is true that a small socketed and looped Spearhead (No. 1*75) which was 



very unfortunately wrongly 

 identified by Dr. Thurnam 

 {Arch., xliii., 447) as having 

 been found in a barrow at 

 Wilsfordwith a cremated inter- 

 Socketed looped Spearhead found ment, has often been quoted , 

 under turf m a Barrow. S ^^^ ^.jj probably continue tO 

 be quoted, as proof that this barrow at least was of the later period of the 

 Bronze Age, in spite of the fact that Mr. W. Cunnington (TT.^.i/., xxi., 262) 

 has shown conclusively that this Spearhead was really found only just under 



