CHAP, x.] THE BRONZE AGE IN SCANDINAVIA. 389 



The designs found on the metal-work and on the 

 pottery of the late Bronze age in Switzerland and in 

 France are those represented in Fig. 146, p. 378. The 

 cross is met with in dots or in right lines, and more 

 rarely the interlaced triangles. The spiral is also seen, 

 but it is by no means so common as in German and 

 Scandinavian bronzes. 



The pottery of the late Bronze age in France and 

 Switzerland is far better than that of Britain, and bears 

 obvious traces of foreign influence. Sometimes it is 

 ornamented with the meander pattern, or with the 

 mystic fylfot (Fig. 146, 4 e). Sometimes it is inlaid 

 with paper-like strips of tin. 



The Bronze Age in Scandinavia. 



The Bronze age in Scandinavia is divided into 

 an early and a late period by Worsaae, 1 Montelius, 2 

 and other antiquaries. To the first belong the great 

 stone - chambered tombs with 

 many skeletons, containing bronze 

 implements and weapons beauti- 

 fully adorned with spirals and 

 right lines. All have been cast, 

 and the ornaments are never en- Fl( >. 147. 



graved on the metal. In the 



later period the tombs consist of small stone chambers 

 with cinerary urns, cremation for the most part replacing 

 inhumation. The ornaments are sometimes engraved 



1 Worsaae, La Colonisation de la Russie et du Nord Scandinave, transl. 

 par G. Beauvois. Copenhague, 1875. 



2 Montelius, Congr. Int. ArcMol. Prehist., Stockholm vol., 1874, p. 488. 

 Antiquites Suedoises. 



