OBJECTS CHARACTERISTIC OF THE BRONZE AGE. 



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to each other of the weapons found in very distant parts of 

 Europe, implies more extended intercourse between different 

 countries, than any that existed in those centuries. On the 

 whole, then, the evidence appears to show that the use of 

 bronze weapons is characteristic of a particular phase in the 

 history of European civilisation, and one which was anterior 

 to the discovery, or, at least, to the general use, of iron for 

 cutting purposes. The commonest and, perhaps, most cha- 

 racteristic objects belonging to the Bronze age, are the 

 so-called " celts" (figs. 1 to 12) which were probably used 



Fio. 1. 



FIG. 2. 



Copper Celt from Waterford. Winged Celt from Ireland. Socketed Celt from Ireland. 



FIG. 4. FIG. 5. FIG. 6. 



The three different types of Celts and the manner in which they are supposed to have heen 



handled. 



