BRONZE CELTS. 



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though not identical, and made of iron instead of bronze, 

 are even now employed in Siberia (fig. 10) and some parts 

 of Africa.* More than two thousand are known to exist in 

 the different Irish collections, of which the great Museum 

 belonging to the Eoyal Irish Academy at Dublin contained 

 in the year 1860 no less than six hundred and eighty-eight,^ 

 no two of which were cast in the same mould. They vary 

 in size from an inch to a foot in length, and may be divided 

 into three principal classes (figs. 7 9) according to the 

 manner in which they were handled ; though we must re- 



FIG. 17. 



FIG. 19. 



FIG. 18. 



Bronze Axe. Le Ptiy. 



Bronze Axe. Naples. 



* Klemm's Culturgeschichte cler 

 Menschen, vol. iii. p. 160. Horse 

 ferales, p. 77. 



SRjgl ! - 



Stone Axe. 



t In the Museum at Edinburgh 

 are more than 100, at Copenhagen 

 350. 



