CONTENTS.
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| The Stone Age. (Plate 1) | [7] |
| The Bronze Age. (Plate 2) | [9] |
| Prehistoric Pottery and Funeral Customs. (Plate 3) | [11] |
| The Roman Wall. (Plate 4) | [13] |
| Roman Pottery, Etc. (Plate 5) | [17] |
| Roman Antiquities Found in London. (Plate 6) | [19] |
| Roman Architecture in Britain. (Plate 7) | [21] |
| Roman Arms, Etc. (Plate 8) | [23] |
| Saxon Weapons. (Plate 9) | [25] |
| Saxon Costume, A.D. 460-A.D. 1066. (Plates 10-11) | [27] |
| Anglo-Saxon Architecture. (Plate 12) | [31] |
| Saxon Customs. (Plate 13) | [33] |
| Saxon Farming. (Plate 14) | [35] |
| Saxon Antiquities. (Plate 15) | [37] |
| Danish Vessels, Etc. (Plate 16) | [39] |
| Norman Costumes. (Plate 17) | [41] |
| Norman Arms and Armour. (Plate 18) | [43] |
| The Bayeux Tapestry. (Plate 19) | [46] |
| Early Norman Architecture. (Plate 20) | [51] |
| Later Norman Architecture. (Plate 21) | [53] |
| Norman Castles. (Plate 22) | [55] |
| Norman Seals and Coins. (Plate 23) | [59] |
| The Joust and the Tournament. (Plate 24) | [61] |
| English Archers. (Plate 25) | [63] |
| Early Cannon. (Plate 26) | [67] |
| A Fifteenth Century Ship. (Plate 27) | [71] |
| Brasses. (Plate 28) | [73] |
| Heraldry. (Plate 29) | [78] |
| The Tudor Navy. (Plate 30) | [83] |
| Plantagenet Costume. (Plates 31-32) | [86] |
| Mail Armour. (Plate 33) | [93] |
| Early English Architecture. (Plates 34-35) | [98] |
| Mixed Mail and Plate Armour. (Plate 36) | [103] |
| Lancastrian and Yorkist Periods. | |
| Male Costumes. (Plate 37) | [107] |
| Female Costumes. (Plate 38) | [113] |
| Plate Armour. (Plate 39) | [115] |
| Decorated Architecture. (Plates 40-41) | [119] |
| Tudor Period. | |
| Male Costumes. (Plate 42) | [126] |
| Female Costumes. (Plate 43) | [131] |
| Plate Armour. (Plate 44) | [136] |
| Perpendicular Architecture. (Plates 45-46) | [141] |
| Stuart Period (To William III.). | |
| Male Costumes. (Plate 47) | [144] |
| Female Costumes. (Plates 48-49) | [151] |
| Arms and Armour.—To end of Charles II. (Plate 50) | [155] |
| Anne, George I. and George II. | |
| Male Costumes. (Plate 51) | [159] |
| Female Costumes. (Plate 52) | [163] |
| George III. | |
| Male Costumes. (Plate 53) | [165] |
| Female Costumes. (Plate 54) | [169] |
| The Monastic Orders. (Plate 55) | [173] |
| General Plan of a Monastery. (Plate 56) | [174] |
| The Friars and Canons. (Plate 57) | [177] |
| Military Monastic Orders. (Plate 58) | [181] |
| Ecclesiastical Costumes and Vestments. (Plate 59) | [185] |
| Pilgrims. (Plate 60) | [189] |
THE STONE AGE.
The Flint Weapons of Prehistoric Man in Britain.
When Britain was joined to the continent of Europe (at the time when the mammoth lived), it was inhabited by the Palæolithic or Ancient Stone men. They were ignorant of the use of metals, and used implements of bone and of rudely chipped stone and flint, which they did not know how to fasten to handles. These implements and weapons, of a different type from those of later periods, are found in the river beds of drifts, and these early people are spoken of as the “Drift men.”
Cave-dwelling Palæolithic men succeeded these. Their weapons were still very rude, but they made handles and fixed them to the flints, so forming arrows, lances or javelins, and axes.