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in Mr. Lee's opinion, to their having been, copied from a bronze 

 prototype, as these peculiarities would be the natural result of 

 hammering bronze into the requisite form, and would not be 

 likely to suggest themselves to a maker of a stone axe unless he 

 had first seen a metal prototype. It has also been thought by 

 some French Archaeologists, who have visited the Lukis Museum, 

 that " Le Tombeau du Grand Sarrazin " was of the Bronze Age, 

 from the curious form of the vases found in it, which all have 

 rounded bases, said to be typical of the early Bronze Age pottery 

 in France. 



EARLY IRON AGE. 



As regards the Early Iron Age, as has already been stated, 

 Dechelette in his " Manuel " (Vol. II., Part II., p. 552) states that 

 the first period of the Early Iron Age, Hallstatt I. 900 to 700 B.C., 

 is nowhere represented in Brittany and Western France, and the 

 second period, Hallstatt II. 700 to 500 B.C. is only very sparingly 

 represented in Brittany. The conclusion he arrives at is that 

 the Bronze Age lasted on in Western France during nearly the 

 whole of the four hundred years covered by these periods. 

 From their position on the tin trade route from Britain to the 

 South, and as a result of this trade Brittany and Western 

 France are particularly rich in articles of bronze. On the other 

 hand the Hallstatt period of the Iron Age attained its highest 

 development in France in the iron bearing districts of Lorraine, 

 Burgundy, Franche Comte, Berry and Auvergne. The Celtic 

 invaders of the fifth century B.C, however spread over the whole 

 of France, including Brittany, and brought with them their 

 own stage of Iron Age culture, which is known to archceologists 

 as that of La Tene. The first period, La Tene I, lasted from 

 500 to 300 B.C., the second, La Tene II, from about 300 to 100 

 B.C., and the last, La Tene III, during the first century B.C., 

 when it was replaced by Roman civilization on the conquest of 

 Gaul by Caesar. 



The earliest objects of the Iron Age in the Lukis 

 Museum are a jet bracelet ornamented with a design 

 of round holes and chequered lines engraved on it, a 

 metal bracelet of some alloy of copper and silver with 

 round knobs at each end (Plate V., fig. 2), and a small jug-shaped 

 vase of very thick hand-made pottery, of dark reddish colour 

 with a polished surface, and with a wide rim and broad flat han- 

 dle (Plate VI., fig. 1). These were all found by Mr. F. C. Lukis in 

 the dolmen of La Roche qui Sonne, Vale. Jet bracelets are chiefly 

 found in Eastern France in graves of the second Hallstatt 

 period, and those of the following period, La Tene I. The 

 knobbed bracelet is also jtypical of the same period, and vases 

 of exactly similar shape to ours have been found in Iron Age 

 graves (La Tene I.) at Bec-er-Vill, Quiberon, and are illustrated 

 in an article on "La Decouverte de Stone Cists a Bec-er-Vill," 



