Pre-Historic Man in Lincolnshire. 301 
have noticed that there was a time when metal was not in use by 
Pre-historic man in Lincolnshire and further that the period 
seems to go a long way back—as the introduction of metal into 
Pre-Historic Man’s life goes back (so Mr. Read of the British 
Museum says) five or six thousand years. To what date must we 
place the Long Barrow, at least it must be anterior to that of 
metal which probably places us 3000, B.C., or 5000 years back 
in our History. 
Many people have thought it probable that the manufacture 
of Bronze originated in Britain: Tin and Copper the component 
parts of Bronze abound in England and specially in Cornwall and 
Anglesea. The earliest name we have for the British Isles is the 
Tin Islands or Cassiterides and they are so described by Herodo- 
tus Book III, c. 115. Homer frequently mentions Cassiteros as 
used in the Trojan War probably B.C. 1100. All this tends to 
show that Tin, if not Bronze, was in use longer than we generally 
give to its introduction, but Sir J. Evans thinks that the introduc- 
tion of Bronze was from the Continent. 
Hesiod who flourished B.C. goo lived in the period of transi - 
tion from Bronze to Iron, for he mentions the Ancients as having 
used bronze and not iron. Lucretius states that ‘Iron was dis- 
covered later than Copper.” Aeschylus alludes to Iron in his 
tragedy of ‘‘ The Seven against Thebes.” 
In the Brachy-cephalic or Round-headed period we rarely 
find Bronze implements with their interments. Out of 301 unburnt 
bodies only 13 had implements of bronze, which seem to have 
been the property of these people when living—54 had implements 
of stone. ‘It is to this Bronze Age we must attribute the intro- 
duction of cremation as a custom at burials”’(Boyd Dawkins), 
and therefore it is in their time that we must place the introduc- 
tion of metal weapons, implements and vessels for domestic use, 
but the use of Bronze extended well into what may be called the 
late Celtic or Early Iron Age about 400 years B.C., but as 
regards Lincolnshire not quite so earlya period may be necessary. 
