DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGUEES. 



1. Copper? celt from Waterford. It is 6 inches long, 3f wide at the broader 



end, and If at the smaller, which is about l-16th thick. 

 Cat. of Royal Irish Academy, page 363. 



2. Winged celt, or Paalstave, from Ireland. The stops are but slightly 



developed. 



Cat. of Eoyal Irish Academy, page 373. 



3. Socketed celt from Ireland, one -third of the actual size. 



Cat. of Royal Irish Academy, page 385. 



4-6. The three principal types of celts, and the manner in which they are 

 supposed to have been handled. 



Cat. of Royal Irish Academy, page 367. 



7. Copper ? celt from Ireland, one-half of the actual size. 



Cat. of Royal Irish Academy, page 363. 



8. Half of a celt mould from Ireland. It is of mica slate, 6f inches long, 4 



wide, and presents upon the surface the apertures by which it was adjusted 

 to the other half. 



Cat. of Royal Irish Academy, page 91. 



9. Decorated celt from Ireland. It is 8| inches long, 4 wide at the blade end, 



and half an inch thick. 



Cat. of Royal Irish Academy, page 365. 



10. Simple celt from Denmark, one -third of the actual size. 



Nordiske Oldsager i det Kong. Mus. i Kjobenhavn. No. 178. 



11. Ornamented celt from Denmark, one-third of the actual size. 



Nordiske Oldsager i det Kong. Mus. i Kjobenhavn. No. 179. 



12. Socketed celt from Denmark, one-third of the actual size. 



Nordiske Oldsager i det Kong. Mus. i Kjobenhavn. No. 195. 



13. Iron sword from a cemetery at Brighthampton in Oxfordshire, one-eighth of 



the actual size. 



Archaeologia, vol. xxxviii., pi. 2, fig. 1. 



14. Sword from Ireland. It is 23| inches long, If wide in the centre of the 



blade, which is margined by a grooved feather edge. 

 Cat. of Royal Irish Academy, page 444. 



15. Sword from Sweden, one -fourth of the actual size. 



Nilsson's Skandinaviska Nordens Ur-invanare, pi. 1, fig. 7. 



16. Sword from Switzerland, one -fifth of the actual size. 



In the museum of Col. Schwab. Mitt. Ant. Ges. in Zurich, Bd. xii. H. 3. 



17. Sword from Concise on the Lake of Neufchatel, one-fourth of actual size. 



In the museum of Col. Schwab. Mitt. Ant. Ges. in Zurich, Bd. xiii. H. 3. 



18. Sword from Scandinavia. 



Atlas for Nordisk Oldkyndighed, pi. iv., fig. 42. 



19. Sword from Denmark, found in the Treenhoi tumulus. 



Afb. af. Danske Oldsager og Mindesmserker, H. 5. 



