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] bronze in Germany and Italy. It is an open question whether bronze shields and armour, or helmets, were used in Britain in the Bronze age, since those which have been discovered are referable to the age of Iron. They are found, however, in Scandinavia, where the Bronze age lasted as late as the Christian era. Those in Britain were probably made of hide or wood.

132, 133.—Two out of a set of four Javelin-heads, Winterbourne Stoke,.

Many of the camps made by the Neolithic inhabitants of Britain were occupied by the invading Celtic tribes, and some of those with the walls built of stones rudely fitted together,—such as that crowning Holyhead Mountain in Holyhead Island,—are proved by the implements