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The ancient bronze implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain and Ireland (1881)

Evans, John, Sir, 1823-1908 · London, Longmans, Green & Co. · leaf 242

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gured. Two oval blades were found with burnt bones in urns near St. Andrews. f Another, found in a large cinerary urn at Balblair,^ Sutherlandshire, is shown full size in Fig. 267. The edges are very thin and sharp, and the central rib shown in the section is ornamented with incised lines. Another… … Fig. 269.— Wallingford. Fig. 270.— Heathery Burn Cave. Another, apparently more perfect, and with many more lozenges in the pattern, is engraved in Gordon's " Itinerarium Septentrionale." He describes it as "the end of a spear or Hasta Pura of old mixt brass, finely chequered." It was in Baron…

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