Identifier: introductiontost00park (find matches)
Title: An introduction to the study of prehistoric art
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Parkyn, Ernest Albert, b. 1857
Subjects: Art, Primitive
Publisher: London, New York (etc.) : Longmans, Green and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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FiG. 284.—Chariot burial. La Gorge Meillet (Marne). pension. Between these objects and the body was abronze vessel of the shape called by the Greeks oenochoe,which enables the date of the burial to be fixed aboutthe fourth century b.c.^ (Fig- 285). Another chariot burial,particularly rich in objects of the Early Iron Age, was dis-covered by M. Leon Morel at Sornme Bionne, in the samedepartment.^ The horse trappings found here show beautifulopen curvilinear bronze work exemplifying the art of this ^ Double Sepulture Gauloise de la Gorge Meillet, par E. Fourdriguier(1876). For the illustrations (Figs. 284, 285) I am indebted to theauthor and publisher of Guide Illustrc, Miisee St. Ger?nain, M. S. Reinachand MM. Eggimann. ^ L. Morel, La Chafnpagne Souterraine (1875). 18 274 PREHISTORIC ART period, thouoh the scroll designs are not so marked andcharacteristic as those of Late Keltic designs in Britain.Among the objects found with this interment was a dish
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Fig. 285.—Chariot burial. La Gorge Meillet (Marne). with red figures on a black ground, the Greek kylix, re-ferable to the fifth or fourth century B.C., and thus affordingevidence of the date of the- burial. The relics of thischariot burial are now preserved in the British Museum. 1 See Brit. Mus. Guide—Early Iron Age, Plates II and III. LATE KELTIC ART 275 Some connexion between these chariot burials and thoseof Yorkshire is sug-gested by Arras being a place name inthis part of France, and by the presence in Yorkshire inBritish times of a tribe known as Parisii, The most important discovery of Horse Xrappings ofthis period in Britain was one which at first appeared tohave no connexion with this form of burial. It was made atStanwick, seven miles north of Richmond, in Yorkshire,not far from the River Tees, where no sign of any barrow

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