392 EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. [CHAP.X. 



ments. Many of these have been derived from more 

 southern regions, and the evidence which they offer as to 



the overlapping of the 

 Bronze and Iron ages in 

 Europe, north of the Alps, 

 is, as we shall see in the 

 thirteenth chapter, of the 

 very highest importance. 

 The axes figured above 

 are of the same pattern as 



FiG."151. Gold Cup, Denmark. ., 1,1 



those represented on the 



walls of the Etruskan tomb at Caere, and are altogether 

 unlike any axes of the Bronze age either of France or 

 of Britain. They belong to the Iron age of Italy. 



In the classification of the Scandinavian antiquaries 

 inhumation is supposed to mark a higher antiquity than 

 cremation. It seems more probable from the associated 

 works of art that the two were practised during the later 

 Bronze age. In the tomb of Jaegersborg, 1 near Copen- 

 hagen, a bronze shield was found ornamented with gold 

 leaf, worked in repousse, and of the same style as the 

 golden articles to be described presently, belonging to 

 the late Celtic or Prehistoric Iron age in Britain, and to 

 the early Etruskan age of Hallstadt. 



Sculptures of the Bronze Age in Scandinavia. 



The sculptures on the glacier-worn rocks of Sweden, 

 and on some of the tombs described by Montelius, 2 



1 Engelhardt, Guide Illustre du Mus. des Antiq. du Nord d Coperihague, 

 2d edit. p. 10. 



2 Congr. Int. ArcMol. Prdhist., Stockholm vol., p. 453 et seq. 



