470 EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. [CIIAP.XIII. 



golden cap (Fig. 157) found in Ireland is similar to those 

 found near Poitiers in France, and in the Valley of the 

 Khine, figured by Lindenschmidt ; it is also of the same 

 design as some of the gold cups found in Denmark 

 (Fig. 151) and Scania. 1 In all these the workmanship 

 is identical with that of the Etruskans. 



The Etruskan influence is proved by many discoveries, 2 

 such as the peculiar vase-carriages in Scania, and the 

 cinerary urns of bronze in North Germany, to have ex- 

 tended as far to the north as Sweden, and to the east as 

 the Lower Vistula. The cinerary urns have been found 

 in association with articles of iron, and with amber 

 beads, in tombs of the Iron age. 



Etruskan weapons and designs have also been dis- 

 covered in Denmark; the axes, for example (Fig. 148), 

 are identical in type with those represented on the 

 frescoed wall of the great tomb at Caere. The shields 

 also, such as Fig. 150, are, if not of Etruskan origin, 

 modelled on Etruskan designs. Some of the Danish 

 swords, with hilts d trois cordons, are identical with 

 those found in Italy. 



The ancient Etruskans of Bologna and Halls tadt, and 

 in the older tombs of Caere, were in the state of transi- 

 tion between bronze and iron. Bronze swords and axes 

 were most common, and iron was comparatively rare, 

 and so much more valuable than bronze, that one of 

 the bronze celts, discovered in a tomb at Bologna, had 



1 Worsaae, Primeval Antiquities, p. 36. Montelius, Congr. Int. Arckeol. 

 Prehist., Stockholm, p. 505. 



2 See Archceologia, xv. 128 ; xli. pi. 4 ; xlii. p. 488. Lindenschmidt, 

 Die Alterthumer unserer heidnischen Vorzeit. Engelhardt, Congr. Int. 

 ArchSol. Prtfhist., Copenhague, p. 403. Mestorf, Congr. Int., Buda-Pesth, 

 p. 686. Virchow, Materiaux, 1877, p. 233, and Archiv fur Ethnologic, 

 passim. 



