352 EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. [CHAP. x. 



originals. 1 The few which have been discovered in 

 north Germany and Italy are obviously metallic re- 

 productions of forms originally done in stone. The 

 perforated bronze axes (Figs. 148, 149) found in 

 Scandinavia are referred by Worsaae 2 to the Iron age 

 of the south of Europe. 



Habitations in Britain in the Bronze Age. 



The houses of the Bronze folk in Britain were prob- 

 ably of the same sort as those of their predecessors, 

 but may be assumed to have been larger and better 

 built, because the tools were better. At the present 

 time the round houses of the ancient Celtic inhabitants 

 are represented by the round stone dwellings of the 

 peasants still used in the north of Scotland and in the 

 Orkneys. Sometimes, for the sake of protection, houses 

 were built upon piles driven into a morass or bottom of 

 a lake, as for example in Barton Mere, 3 near Bury-St.- 

 Edmunds, where bronze spear-heads have been discovered, 

 one eighteen inches long, in and around piles and large 

 blocks of stone, as in some of the lakes of Switzerland. 

 Along with them were vast quantities of the broken 

 bones of the stag, roe, wild boar, and hare, to which 

 must also be added the urus, an animal proved to be 

 wild by its large bones, with strongly-marked ridges 

 for the attachment of muscles. The inhabitants also 

 fed upon domestic animals, the horse, short-horned ox, 



1 The bronze axes figured by Kemble and Franks in Horce Ferales, 

 pi. v. figs. 51 to 54, are modelled on well-known types of stone. 



2 Worsaae, Primeval Antiquities of Denmark, 8vo, 1849, p. 39. 



3 Explored by Rev. Harry Jones in 1867 ; Suffolk Inst. of Archaeology 

 and Natural History, June 1869. 



