OF THE LAKE OP NEUCHATEL. 



395 



Keller inclines to the opinion that tliey were tools of the currier, 

 ness of the blade is represented by Fig. S9a. 



The thick- 



Figure 88. 



Figure 89. 



OBJECTS IN BRONZE. 



Figure 89o. 



The station of the Tdne has furnished us with some objects in bronze which 

 at first glance may seem incongruous in the midst of all this assemblage of uten- 

 sils and arms of iron, but these articles, though of the same metal, have nothing 

 in common with those of the properly called age of bronze. It has been seen 

 that the utensils of that age are characterized by having been run in moulds ; 

 those in question are wrought ; they are garnitures for the helmet, the saddle, or 

 some other object. The chemical composition of the bronze is much the same 

 as that of the preceding age.* 



PRECIODS METALS. • 



It is quite certain that the Gauls were acquainted with gold and silver ; but in 

 this respect the tombs are richer than the palafittes, which have as yet fui-nished 

 mere traces of those metals. 



GLASS AND ENAMEL. 



' It is equally apparent, from explorations in the Gallic tombs, that glass was 

 in extensive use in the age of iron. The palafittes leave, however, much to be 

 desired in this respect, having hitherto yielded only some fragments of colored 

 glass. At the palafitte of Nidau beads of an enamelled paste have been brought 

 to light, and are supposed to have formed portions of necklaces, in which they 

 alternated with beads of amber, as in the tombs of the epoch. 



° A fragment of a bronze plato (probably the ornament of a casque or helmet) is composed, 

 according"to an analysis made by M. Felienberg, of the foliowiug: Copper, 8G.30 per 100; 

 tin, 13.03; lead, 0.34 ; iron, 0.18; nickel, 0.15. 



