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EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN.
[CHAP. X.

found in and around them to date as far back as the Bronze age. Camps of this kind are very numerous, and imply that the tribes were frequently at war with each other, as in the preceding Neolithic age.

Burial Customs.

Fig. 134.—Bronze Spear-head,
Heathery Burn, 1/2.
Figs. 135, 136.—Bronze Spear and Javelin
Heads, Thurston, Whittingham,
Northumberland, 1/4.

The invasion of Britain by the bronze-using Celtic tribes is marked by a striking change in the customs of burial, which probably is the sign of the introduction of a new faith. In the Neolithic age