CHAP.X.] SCULPTURES OF BRONZE AGE IN SCANDINAVIA. 393 



Bruzelius, 1 Nilsson, 2 and Holmberg, 3 convey to us a 

 vivid idea of the life of the people in the north of 

 Europe in the Bronze 

 age. In Fig. 152 we see 

 a human figure repre- 

 sented, armed with a 

 bronze axe. In some 

 groups the characteristic 

 stone axe-hammer with 

 its handle is to be seen ; 

 in others the small - 

 handled short sword, 

 and the round buckler. 

 Some of the figures of 

 the warriors are larger 

 than life - size. The 

 sculptured rock at Teg- 

 neby, 1 figured below (Fig. 

 153), may be taken as an 

 example of some of the 

 groups. In the upper 

 part domestic oxen are 

 represented with their 

 driver, and a man is ploughing with a yoke of oxen. 

 An archer is shooting, and down below a party of four 

 men, armed with round shields and axes, are fighting. 

 Boats also are represented, some of them drawn up in 

 line, and one in front with a covered stern possesses an 

 awning. On a rock in the same place a group of war- 

 riors is seen on horseback contending with spears, and 



1 Oongr. Int. Arche'ol Prdhist., Stockholm vol., p. 453 et seq. 



2 Die Ureinwohner des Scandinavischen Nordens. Hamburg, 1863, p. 9. 



3 Scandinavians Hdllsristning ar Arkeologisk Afliandling, 4to, 1848. 



FIG. 152. Man with Bronze Axe on a 

 rock at Simrislund, Scania. 



