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EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. 



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Weapons and Warfare. 



The principal weapons for close combat, introduced by 

 the Bronze folk into Britain, were the bronze axe and the 

 dagger (Figs. 114 to 121), to which must be 

 added in the later Bronze age, short, pointed, 

 double-edged swords (Figs. 130, 131), some- 

 times leaf-shaped, and with small handles made 

 of wood ; more rarely the last had handles of 

 bronze, adorned with spir- 

 als or chevrons. For fight- 

 ing at a distance flint 

 arrows were used, and in 

 the early Bronze age jave- 

 lins of various sizes tipped 

 with flint. A set of four 

 of these was found in the 

 stone chamber at Winter- 

 bourne Stoke 1 (Figs. 132, 

 133). These were after- 

 wards replaced by bronze- 

 headed spears and jave- 

 lins (Figs. 134, 135, 136). 

 Axe -hammers (Fig. 140) 

 or stone maces, sometimes 

 beautifully polished and 

 ornamented with various 

 ' patterns, were employed 

 in the early Bronze age, 

 and have been imitated in 



i Way, Arclmol Journ. 1867. 

 Owen Stanley, Memoirs on An- 

 cient Dwellings in Holyhead Island. 

 8vo. 1871. 



