380 EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. [CHAP. x. 



III. Transition de 1'Age du Bronze a FAge du Fer : 



phase moeringienne = Epoque Hallstatienne of 

 de Mortillet. 



The third of these we shall discuss in the chapter on 

 the Iron age. The other two are the exact equivalents 

 of those of Britain. The association in tombs and 

 sepulchral caves of the ordinary Neolithic implements 

 with bronze articles and with bronze ornaments, char- 

 acterises the first of these divisions (see Table, p. 346), 

 which is named from the great number of inter- 

 ments of this sort in the region of the Cevennes. In 

 the Second or the Ehodanian age, named from the many 

 discoveries in the valley of the Ehone, bronze is no longer 

 rare, but it has become a necessary in every-day life, and 

 smiths' shops have sprung up in various regions in which 

 the broken implements and ornaments were worked 

 up into new forms. These two subdivisions shade off 

 one into another, and are not more clearly defined in 

 France than in Britain. 



The Age of Transition, or the Early Bronze Age. 



If we examine the table of the contents of 147 cham- 

 bered tombs in the CeVennes (p. 346), compiled from 

 the work of M. Chantre, it will be observed that the 

 principal difference between tombs of the Bronze and 

 those of the Neolithic age consists in the addition of 

 articles of bronze and glass. Daggers are comparatively 

 abundant, lances are rare,' and only one bronze axe of the 

 simple wedge-shaped type is met with. All the bronze 

 articles are small, and capable of being easily carried, and 

 most of them are intended for personal ornament. Pins, 

 bracelets, and rings are far more common than knives 



