British costume : a complete history of the dress of the inhabitants of the British Islands / by J.R. Planché.

  • Planché, J. R. (James Robinson), 1796-1880.
Date:
[1855?]
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Credit: British costume : a complete history of the dress of the inhabitants of the British Islands / by J.R. Planché. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HISTORY OF BRITISH COSTUME, Chapter I. ANCIENT BRITISH PERIOD. Ancient British weapons of bone and flint. Fig. a, arrow-head of flint, in the Meyrirk collection ; b, another, engraved in Archaeoloeia, vol. xv. pi. 2 ; c, rf, lance-heads of bone, from a barrow on Upton Lovel Downs, Wiltshire, engraved in same plate; e, spear- head of stone, in the Meyrirk collection: /*, battle-axe head of black stone, in ditto ; p. another, found in a barrow in Devonshire, and now in the same collection. Respecting the original colonists of Britain—the more adventurous members of the two great nomadic tribes, the Cimmerii or Cimbriaiis and the Celt® or Celts, who wandered from the shores of the Thracian Bosphorus to the northern coasts of Europe, and passed, some from Gaul across the channel, others through “the Hazy’’ or German Ocean to these B