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BRONZE FISH-HOOKS AND SICKLES. 



More than a hundred bronze fish-hooks have been found at 

 Nidau in the Lake of Bienne, but elsewhere they appear to be 

 rare ; the Museum at Dublin contains only one. Sickles are 

 more numerous; at Copenhagen there are twenty-five, at 

 Dublin eleven; in the lake -village at Merges eleven have 



FIG. 32. 



FIG. 33. 



FIG. 34. 



Irish Bronze Daggers. 



been found, at Nidau eighteen ; they are generally about six 

 inches in length, flat on one side, and raised on the other ; 

 they were always intended to be held in the right hand. 



