<Ul> <Li> <P> Assorted Celtic bronze castings dating from the Bronze Age . </P> </Li> </Ul> <Li> <P> Assorted Celtic bronze castings dating from the Bronze Age . </P> </Li> <P> Assorted Celtic bronze castings dating from the Bronze Age . </P> <P> The Bronze Age in Northern Europe spans the entire 2nd millennium BC (Unetice culture, Urnfield culture, Tumulus culture, Terramare culture, Lusatian culture) lasting until c. 600 BC . The Northern Bronze Age was both a period and a Bronze Age culture in Scandinavian pre-history, c. 1700--500 BC, with sites that reached as far east as Estonia . Succeeding the Late Neolithic culture, its ethnic and linguistic affinities are unknown in the absence of written sources . It is followed by the Pre-Roman Iron Age . </P>

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