CHAP, x.] CLASSIFICATION OF BRONZE AGE IN BRITAIN. 345 



shaped axes (see Fig. 116), originally modelled from a 



FIG. 114. Bronze Dagger-blade, Round Barrow, East Kennet, Wilts, |. 



prototype in stone. In one case in Italy a polished 

 stone celt has been cast in bronze. To it belong nearly 



FIG. 115. Bronze Dagger-blade, Barrow, Camerton, Somerset, $. 



all the burial-places referable to the Bronze age in this 

 country, In the following table the contents of those 

 explored by the Rev. W. Green well 1 in the North of 

 England, by Mr. Bateman 2 in Derbyshire, and Dr. 

 Thurnam 3 in Wiltshire, are tabulated so as to show 

 the manner in which the articles are associated together. 

 It will be observed that the higher forms of bronze im- 

 plements and weapons are entirely absent. 



1 Greenwell and Rolleston, Ancient British Barrows, 8vo, 1877. 



2 Vestiges of the Antiquities of Derbyshire. For detailed tables, see 

 Lubbock, Prehistoric Times, 4th edit. 'pp. 148-151. 



3 Archceologia, xliii. pp. 285 et seq. 



