CHAP, xiir.] ETRUSKAN INFLUENCE NORTH OF THE ALPS. 469 



mouth, and found its way also through various Alpine 

 passes, and by the Mediterranean into France. 1 In 

 both these countries the safety-pin brooch, and weapons 

 and ornaments of Etruskan derivation, occur in the late 

 Bronze and early Iron ages. 



Traces of Etruskan Influence north of the Alps. 



Hallstadt 2 occupied a most important position on the 

 right of Eoute L; and from it a trade in salt from the 

 salt mines must have been carried on both with the 

 north and with the south. It was also a centre from 

 which the Etruskan metal- work would be conveyed, on 

 the one hand, up the Danube into the Valley of the 

 Ehine, and, on the other, in the direction of Presburg, 

 and into the Valley of the Elbe. The direction which 

 this commerce took is proved by the numerous discoveries 

 of Etruskan weapons, repousse work in bronze and gold, 

 and various designs, met with in those regions. The 

 commerce found its way farther and farther north, until 

 ultimately the Etruskan articles and patterns arrived in 

 Britain. The dagger 3 found in the river Witham is 

 of the same design as a sword figured by Eamsauer 

 from the cemetery at Hallstadt; the golden armour 

 found at Mold (Figs. 159, 160) presents the same pat- 

 terns as the metal- work found at Hallstadt, and in 

 Etruskan tombs at Veii, Corneto, and Preeneste. 4 The 



1 MatJriaux, 1877, p. 531 ; 1878, p. 403 ; 1870, pp. 34, 273, and 

 p. 402. 



2 Von Sacken, op. cit. Ramsauer, op. cit. Mattriaiix, 1877, p. 409, 

 1878, pi. ix. 



3 Kenible and Franks, Horce Ferales, pi. xvii. fig. 2. 



4 Archceologia, xxxvi. p. 350 et seq ; xli. p. 216 et seq. Mon. Inedit., 1874, 

 x. tav. 10. 



