OF THE LAKE OF NEUCHATEL. 



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imcler the stone at Niton, towards the middle of the XVIItli eentniy * Others, 

 again, Lave a perfect socket, sometimes circular, sometimes square, with a loop 

 of suspension, (Fig. 39.) This form, very common in France, and to which is 



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Figure 37. 



i'lgUlf 







1 ij^im, ^8. 

 applied more specifically the name of celt, is rare in our 

 palafittes, though, according to Nillson, one of the most 

 common in Scandinavia. The specimen given comes 

 from the lake of Geneva. Lastly, there occurs in the 

 museum of Neuchatel a fourth type, represented by a 

 single specimen. It has the ears broad and recurvated, 

 but arranged in the plane of the edge, instead of being 



/perpendicular to it as in the true celts, (Figs. 40 « and 

 40 b.) This very rare form bad not been observed hith- 

 erto except in Ireland and Germany .t Knives are uu- 



* The more rare these instruments with us, the more common 

 do they appear to be in Hungary, where they are found asso- 

 ciated witli the hatchet, furnished with a socket, which is not less 

 abundant, especially that with a round socket. 



t Kemble, Harm feralcs, tab. D ; Lindenschmidt, AlterthUmer 

 unserer Iteidnischen Vorzeit. M. de Mortillet has lately noticed it 

 ^ at the museum of Vaunes, derived, no doubt, from a dolmen. 

 \ M. Lachmann has also obtained a specimen from the palatitte 

 ^ of Unteruhldingen, on Lake Constance. In view of this variety 

 of forms, all well characterized, of the same utensil, there might 

 1 iguie 4Urt. jjg room, perhaps, to make an application of the method used in Fig. 40 b. 

 mineralogy, and designate each type of hatchet by a proper name. If this suggestion be adopted 

 we would propose the following titles: The Keller hatchet for that of figure :^4 ; the Schwab 

 for that of figure 35 ; the Morlot for that of figure 36 ; the Troyon for that of figure 40 ; the 

 Bertrand for that of figure 39 ; the I'Haridon ibr the same with a square socket ; the Mortil- 

 let for the small hatchet with a socket, which is very common in France, but not yet found 

 in our palafittes. The same method might be applied with advantage to the different types 

 of pins, vases, swords, &c. The small hatchet, which we have named after M. Mortillet, is 

 conjectured by that savant to have been a sort of votive oftering. The Conmnssion of To- 

 pograj^hy of Gaules has just published a proposed classification of bronze hatchets, in which 

 not less than twenty-two types are distinguished ; the six forms, whose figures we have given, 

 representing therein as many distinct types. {Revue Archaologique, p. 58, pi. 1. v, 



