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688 Axe-blades and axe-hafts in the
London 1888 p. 54 fig. 53 (=my fig. 628), P. B. du Chaillu The Viking Age London 1889
ii. 131 fig. 906, Forrer Reallex. p. 73
pi. 23, 8 (reversed). From a rock at Simrislund
(Scania) in S. Sweden. Height of man 1 ft. 6 ins. : length of axe-handle i ft. 8 ins.
length of axe-head nearly i ft. 2 ins.
The designs hammered on rocks high up in the Italian Maritime Alps, described and
drawn in priniis by C. Bicknell (bibliography in J. Dechelette op. cit. 1910 ii. i. 493 n. 2),
Fig. 630.
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include numerous examples of little men uplifting large axes (id. id. 1910 ii. i. 495 with
fig. 209, 7— 12, M. Hoernes op. cit? p. 216 with fig. 2 on p. 215). They appear to be the
work of Ligurian hands (G. Dottin Les anciens peuples de PEurope Paris 1916 p. 187)
during the earlier part of the Bronze Age (Sir A. J. Evans in The Athenauni Dec. 25,
1897, p. 890, id. ' The European diffusion of pictography and its bearings on the origin of
script' in R. R. Marett Anthropology and the Classics Oxford 1908 p. 39 with fig. 20