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The foregoing table, which I owe to the kindness of Dr. 

 Keller, and the list given on p. 17, will give an idea of the 

 relative numbers of the different objects. Since it was drawn 

 up the numbers have considerably increased, and the total 

 number of bronze objects recovered from the two lakes of 

 Bienne and Neufchatel alone now exceeds 20,000. 



Dr. Thurnam gives the following list of the bronze objects 

 found by Sir E. C. Hoare in the Wiltshire tumuli. 



OBJECTS OF BRONZE. 



With Unburnt With Burnt 



Total ... 29 79 108 



There is, I believe, only one case in which any bronze 

 weapon or implement bears an inscription ; a fact which is 

 the more significant when we remember how often letters 

 are met with on those of iron. Fig. 68 represents this inte- 

 resting specimen, which is a winged celt, and is in the 

 Museum Kircherianum of the Collegio Romano, at Rome. 

 No explanation of the inscription has yet been given, nor do 

 we even know to what alphabet the letters belong. It was 



