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EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. 



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open coffin, buried in a tumulus, is a piece of British 

 workmanship. If it be, it proves that the use of the 

 lathe was known in Britain at the time. It is turned in 

 the lathe, with lines engraved on the handle, and was 

 associated with a perforated hammer-axe made of iron- 

 stone, and a whetstone, as well as a bronze dagger of 

 the usual type. 



Bronze- Working. 



The fashioning of bronze in this country into various 

 articles is proved by the discoveries of stocks in trade 

 of bronze-smiths, in which hammers, anvils, cold chisels, 



pointed awls, and stamps have 

 been met with for working the 



o 



bronze. Moulds also in stone 

 and in bronze were used for cast- 

 ing, and are sometimes found 

 along with broken implements 

 and ornaments ready for the 

 smelting-pot. The bronze mould 

 (Fig. 129) found in Heathery 

 Burn cave (see p. 347) was dis- 

 covered along with celts which 

 had been cast in it. 1 It is evi- 

 dent, therefore, that implements 



FIG. 129,-Bronze'CeltIMoiild, Were made in this Country, as 



Heathery Bum, \. they were in France, Germany, 



and Scandinavia. The bronze-smiths were acquainted 

 with the art of casting, of hardening the bronze by 

 hammering, of beating it out into thin plates, and 



1 For an account of the bronze-working, see Evans, Proceed. Soc. Antiq. 

 1873, on "The Bronze Period," pp. 20-21. 



