ture of woollens was not commonly carried on in Europe in the Bronze age, because the cloth has been so rarely discovered.
Agriculture and Farming.
Fig. 126.—Bronze Reaping-hook, Tay.
The domestic animals in the Bronze age in Britain were of the breeds introduced in the Neolithic age. The corn was probably the same, but possibly the oats and beans, which appear for the first time in the lake-dwellings of the Bronze age in Switzerland, may have also found their way to Britain. The harvest was gathered in with reaping-hooks (Fig. 126) of the small kind used for cutting off the ears, after the manner universal among the Greeks and Romans. In the sketches of various scenes in the life of the Bronze folk in Scandinavia, the horse was employed both for riding and driving, and oxen were used for ploughing. This is likely to have been the case in Britain.
Pottery.—Cups of Gold and Amber.
The pottery was made by the hand, and ornamented with various patterns in dots and right lines. It consisted of drinking cups of various sorts (see Fig. 127), cooking pots, cinerary urns, and small vessels, used for containing incense or sacred fire (Fig. 128). These were probably made in Britain. It is, however, an open question whether a gold cup, found at Rillaton,[1] in Corn-
- ↑ Archæologia, xliii. Proceed. Soc. Antiq. SS. iii. 517.
