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WEAPONS AND WARFARE. 



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bronze in Germany and Italy. It is an open question 

 whether bronze shields and armour, or helmets, were 

 used in Britain in the Bronze age, since those which 



have been discovered are refer- 

 able to the age of Iron. They 

 are found, however, in Scandi- 

 navia, where the Bronze age 



FIGS. 132, 133. Two out of a set of four Javelin-heads, 

 Winter-bourne Stoke, . 



lasted as late as the Christian era. Those in Britain 

 were probably made of hide or wood. 



Many of the camps made by the Neolithic inhabitants 

 of Britain were occupied by the invading Celtic tribes, 

 and some of those with the walls built of stones rudely 

 fitted together, such as that crowning Holyhead Moun- 

 tain 1 in Holyhead Island, are proved by the implements 



1 Way, Arclmol. Journ. 1867. Owen Stanley, Memoirs on Ancient 

 Dwellings in Holyhead Island. 8vo. 1871. 



