Transcriber’s Note: ################### This e-text is based on the 1922 edition. Minor errors in punctuation and hyphenation, particularly inconsistencies in citations, have been tacitly corrected. Uncommon spellings (‘developes’ for ‘develops’, etc.) as well as incorrect spellings in foreign languages have not been altered. Inconsistent (but not erroneous) hyphenation (e.g., ‘foot-hills’/‘foothills’) and use of diacritical marks (‘Anchinoe’/‘Anchinoë’) have been retained. Italic passages in the original version has been placed between underscores (_italic_); text in small caps have been symbolised by forward slashes (/small caps/). Bold numbers in the bibliography have been highlighted using equals signs (=bold=). The following passages have been corrected or need to be commented: # p. 32: ‘Mullerup amd Svædborg’ → ‘Mullerup and Svædborg’ # p. 36: ‘Eygptian’ → ‘Egyptian’ # p. 43: ‘millenium’ → ‘millennium’ # p. 60: ‘indicates’ → ‘indicate’; ‘undeed’ → ‘indeed’ # p. 108: ‘speading’ → ‘spreading’ # p. 119: ‘how can be we’ → ‘how can we be’ # p. 184: ‘154-54’: range could not be resolved; therefore, left as found; ‘Flach-kund Randäxte’ → ‘Flach- und Randäxte’ # p. 186: ‘seige’ → ‘siege’ # p. 187: ‘1921-17’: retained; could possibly be 1912-1917 # Footnote 356: ‘1908-8’: range could not be resolved, left as found # Footnote 375: ‘Aeschylus’ → ‘Æschylus’ # Caption of Plate I: Item 9 missing, but also missing in illustration on the following page # Caption of Plate II: Item 7 missing, but also missing in illustration on the following page # Caption of Plate VI, Item A: ‘Buda-pest’ → ‘Buda-Pest’ THE BRONZE AGE AND THE CELTIC WORLD THE BRONZE AGE AND THE CELTIC WORLD BY HAROLD PEAKE, F.S.A. LONDON: BENN BROTHERS, LIMITED 8 BOUVERIE STREET, E.C.4 1922 PRINTED AND MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN BY HEADLEY BROTHERS, 18, DEVONSHIRE STREET, E.C.2; AND ASHFORD, KENT. DEDICATION To the anonymous benefactors whose liberality made possible the delivery of these lectures this work is gratefully dedicated. PREFACE The substance of the following pages was delivered in February last in a series of six lectures at The University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. In volume form the matter has been somewhat re-arranged and the latter part expanded.