THE BEOSZE AGE. 



The graves of women contain daggers, which may possibly 



imply that the women had 

 been warriors ; also large, 

 spiral rings, various orna- 

 ments, finger-rings, brace- 

 lets, glass beads, &c. 



Women's dress of the 

 bronze age seems to have 

 consisted of the skirt and 

 bodice as at the present 

 time, but the men's clothes 

 were quite different from 

 those of the iron age ; in the 

 earlier time trousers were 

 not worn, while we see them 

 in use in the latter. 



Many sewing implements 

 of bronze have been found 

 in the graves, the needles 

 like those of the stone age 

 are sometimes made of bone, 

 but many are of bronze ; 

 awls were used to pierce the 

 holes in garments that were 

 made of skins, and some 

 peculiar shaped knives have 

 been 'found which were pr<>- 

 bablv used in the makinir 



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of skin clothing, or in cut- 

 ting leather. 



In a grave-mound near 

 Aarhus, in North Jutland, 

 a coffin made of two oak 

 logs was found. The bottom 

 of the coffin was covered 

 with an untanned ox or 

 deer-hide. On this lav a 



Kiu r . 44. Woman's skirt and bodice of \vuul, 

 tumid with bronze ornaments, and a bronze 

 (Milliard with horn handle by the side of 

 the body which had been wrapped in a 

 deer-skin. Aarhus, North Jutland. 



large cloak, made of coarse wool and cattle-hair. In the cloak, 

 which was partly destroyed, was wrapped the skeleton of a 



