barrow, Rylstone,[1] Yorkshire.
Fig. 122.—Bronze Hair-pin, Wandle.
In Scandinavia they wore woollen cloaks, and a round woollen cap on the head, and their legs and feet were protected by leather leggings and sandals.[2] A dagger (Figs. 114, 115), attached to the girdle in a sheath of wood or leather, and an axe, of one of the three types above, were their constant companions—sometimes ornamented, as in Fig. 121, with various geometric patterns, either cast or hammered. The face was shaven, and the beard, moustaches, or whiskers were sometimes plucked out. The hair was worn long, and arranged into a pyramid sufficiently large, in some cases, to allow of the use of a hair-pin[3] (Fig. 122) twenty inches long. So careful were they of their coiffure, that they are proved, in the lake-dwellings of Switzerland, to have used head-rests made of pottery,[4] like those of the ancient Egyptians[5] in wood, to prevent its being disarranged in sleep. Similar articles are used by the Abyssinian dandies of the present day, and by other African peoples,
- ↑ Greenwell, British Barrows, p. 375.
- ↑ At Dömmestorp in Holland; at Borum-Eshoc, near Aarhuus, in Jutland. Montelius, La Suède préhistorique, Stockholm, 8vo, 1874.
- ↑ Franks, Archæol. Journ. ix. p. 7. This was found at the mouth of the river Wandle, along with a bronze sword, a spear-head, and a palstave.
- ↑ Keller, Lake-dwellings, transl. J. E. Lee, pp. 175, 501, 565.
- ↑ Keller, pp. 178, 388.
