SCARCITY OF BKONZE IMPLEMENTS. 



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The barrows are found to contain examples of almost all the 

 stone implements which occur elsewhere. I do not remember, 

 indeed, to have seen any article of stone which has not, in one 

 form or another, been met with in a barrow. The contrary, how- 

 ever, is the case with reg-ard to bronze. The number as well as 

 variety of weapons and implements belonging- to the bronze period, 

 which have been discovered under many different circumstances 



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and in great abundance, is very large. Not to particularise every 

 one, it may be sufficient to mention swords, dag-gers, spear-heads, 

 axes (plain, flanged, and socketed— the so-called paalstabs and 

 celts), g-ouo-es, chisels, knives, drills, and awls. Now, out of this 

 long list, but a very small proportion has ever been found in bar- 

 rows in association with interments, or, indeed, in any part of a 

 sepulchral mound. Those that have occurred may be comprised 



