A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



same Celtic race ; hence the term Late Celtic, in opposition to the 

 bronze-using people known as Early Celtic. This period is not so 

 widely known as it deserves to be. Historians who have already 

 embodied the results of the archeology of the Palasolithic, Neolithic and 

 Bronze ages in their work have not at present made use of the discoveries 

 belonging to this period. 



We have now traced the remains of Prehistoric man in North- 

 amptonshire from his first appearance in the Nene valley while yet this 

 country formed part of the continent, having as his contemporaries the 

 mammoth, the woolly rhinoceros, the hippopotamus, through the suc- 

 cessive periods of the Neolithic and Bronze ages after it had become 

 an island, down to the Late Celtic period (characterized by the use of 

 iron) during which the camp at Hunsbury was constructed and occu- 

 pied, as perhaps some of the other camps in the county may prove to 

 be. It will be seen that if Northamptonshire has not contributed much 

 to the general stock of knowledge relating to the Neolithic and the 

 Bronze ages, it has yielded its share towards our knowledge of the 

 Britons who occupied this part of the country prior to the Roman 

 occupation. 



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