BRONZE KNIVES. 



one. They were generally fitted into handles of bone, horn, 

 or wood, and the blade is almost always more or less curved, 



FIG. 32. Pie, 33. 



FIG. 29. 



Bronze Knives from Denmark. 



Bronze Knives from 

 Switzerland. 



while those of iron knives, on the contrary, were gene- 

 rally straight. 



The small bronze razor-knives (figs. 34-37), indeed, have 

 straight edges, but they are quite of a different character 

 from the iron knives : from the ornaments engraved on 

 them, I am disposed to regard them as belonging to a late 

 period in the age of Bronze, if not in some cases to the 

 beginning of that of Iron. Indeed, the Flensborg Museum 



