bronze-weaponed

Updated: June 4, 2025

This was the ethnical composition of the Sussex population at the date of the first Roman invasions. Under the bronze-weaponed Celts, a very different type of civilisation became possible. Sussex, however, enclosed by its barrier of forest, would naturally remain a single little principality of itself, held, at least in later times, by a tribe known to the Romans as Regni.

Grant Allen - Science in Arcady

But the geographical position of England generally, within sight of the European continent, made it certain that if ever anywhere else bronze should come to be used, the bronze-weaponed people must ultimately cross over and subjugate the stone-weaponed aborigines of the island.

Grant Allen - Science in Arcady