48 



DRESS DU1UNG 



FIG. 68. 



Inscribed Celt. 



found in the Campagna, but there is unfortunately no record 

 of the circumstances under which it was discovered. 



The skill displayed in the manufac- 

 ture of the objects described in this 

 chapter, as well as the beauty of their 

 form and ornamentation, shows a con- 

 siderable development of art. The dis- 

 covery of a bar of tin at Estavayer, and 

 of a mould for casting celts at Morges, 

 has proved that some at least of these 

 objects were made in Switzerland, just 

 as evidence of a similar nature shows 

 that other countries in Europe, as, for 

 instance, Denmark, England, Scotland, 

 and Ireland, had also their own foundries. The similarity of 

 form and ornamentation appears also to indicate some com- 

 munication between different parts of Europe ; but as Corn- 

 wall, Saxony, and Spain* are the only known European 

 sources from which tin can be obtained in any quantity, the 

 mere presence of bronze is in itself a sufficient evidence 

 not only of metallurgical skill, but also of commercial inter- 

 course. 



We should hardly, perhaps, have hoped to ascertain much 

 of the manner in which the people of the Bronze Age were 

 dressed. Considering how perishable are the materials out 

 of which clothes are necessarily formed, it is wonderful that 

 any fragments of them should have remained to the present 

 day. There can be little doubt that the skins of animals 

 were extensively used for this purpose, as indeed they have 

 been in all ages of man's history ; many traces of linen tissue 

 also have been found in English' tumuli of the Bronze Age, 



* Tin is said to have anciently 

 been obtained in Pannonia, near 

 the modern Temesvar, but I do not 



know whether the mines were ex- 

 tensive. See Howorth, Stockholm 

 Fre-hist. Congress, p. 533. 



