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The Danish coffin contained two caps, a cape, much like a 
poncha, a sort of petticoat, short trousers fringed at the 
bottom, and leggings, all made of wool. Another tree 
interment, in Dorsetshire, contained a dress made of deer- 
skins, and a considerable quantity of gold thread, evidently 
the remains of some rich material, the perishable part of 
which had gone to decay. From a stone cist, near Rothbury, 
in Northumberland, I have a javelin head, which had been 
wrapped in two fabrics of woollen cloth, the pattern of which 
has been preserved upon the oxidised metal : the one is very 
open and coarse, the other of very much finer texture, both 
apparently woven. Such, I think, is all that can be said of 
an ancient Briton's clothes, without following the historian 
into the realms of fancy, where he takes wider flights indeed 
than even poetic license might allow ; into which, if you like 
to follow him, you may see our worthy forefathers appearing 
in almost every guise, from that of the conventional Homan 
senator or Grecian sage, to that of a tattooed New Zealander. 
But when we come to ornaments, a wider field is opened 
to us, for here we get at less perishable materials. Large 
gold torques for the neck are by no means uncommon, and 
frequently of beautiful design and workmanship, including 
many varieties of the cable pattern. Very similar ornaments, 
but smaller, adorned the arms and perhaps the ankles, 
generally pen-annular and widening into a sort of cup- 
shaped end, but sometimes fastened by a hook at each end, 
or by an ordinary hook and eye. I possess three fine gold 
armlets, made by simply twisting a riband of metal into a 
spiral. The jeweller of whom I bought them, told me that, 
thinking the fashion was very elegant and a likely one to 
take, he set his best workman to make some, and that after 
wasting two days in vain attempts to produce the like, he 
gave it up. I have also three hollow gold beads, or rings, 
for it is difficult to say what they are. On showing them to 
