Page:Early Man in Britain and His Place in the Tertiary Period.djvu/430

402 Tin, like copper, from its softness, is unfitted for cutting purposes, and therefore does not mark an era in the civilisation of the world. It was used in the Bronze age unalloyed, merely for purposes of ornament, and for inlaying pottery, such as that discovered in the pile-dwellings of the lake of Bourget.

In our enquiry into the origin of the Bronze civilisation, it is unnecessary to notice the tin districts of Sweden and Finland, which have only been worked in modern times.

In Germany tin has been worked from time