Those marked with an asterisk (*) are to be seen in the County Museum at Lincoln. Those marked B.M. are in the British Museum.
The objects found include swords, celts (socketed and unsocketed), arrow-heads, spear-heads, palstaves, adzes, knives, daggers, circular shields, armlets, bracelets, bridle bits, trumpet, horse trappings (probably a peytrel at Caenby).
These show progress in the art of man from rude plane castings to what may be called high art in decoration, as shown in the very elaborate shield from the river Witham, and now in the British Museum, figured in their catalogue to the Early Iron Age on page 90.
It is to this period that we must attribute many of the very fine pieces of pottery belonging to Mr. H. Preston, now deposited at the Lincoln Museum. It consists of cinerary urns, drinking cups, food vessels, incense cups, and other forms of vessels.
The places where this early class of pottery has been found in the county, so far as we have been able to compile it, is as follows:—
- *Billinghay.
- Caythorpe.
- Denton.
- Donnington.
- *Dunston.
- Ferriby, South.
- Heighington.
- Horncastle.
- Kirton in Lindsey.
- Lincoln.
- Manton.
- Normanton.
- *Potterhanworth.
- Scotter.
- Willingham, North.
- Woolsthorpe.
Those marked with an asterisk (*) are to be seen in the County Museum at Lincoln.
All this pottery is made of burnt clay in an open fire.
Clothing of the People in the Bronze Age
In the one instance where a body has been found with clothing at Haxey in the Isle of Axholme, it was that of a woman dressed in skins with sandals on her feet. Cæsar’s statement in Book V., paragraph 147, describes the Celts or Britons as wearing skins on their bodies for clothing, and the parts of the body not covered with skins being painted in order to render themselves more terrible in battle.