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bronze. Many of the large urns appear to have been used 

 as storeplaces for the nuts, etc., which were collected during 

 the summer for the winter's use. In the absence, perhaps, 

 of boxes and cupboards, even ornaments and instruments 

 seem to have been kept in large jars. Some beautiful brace- 

 lets were found with several sickles in a jar at Cortaillod. 

 Pieces of pottery, distorted by fire during the process of 

 baking, have, according to M. Troyon, been found in many 

 of the Lake-villages, whence he concludes that the pottery 

 was manufactured on the spot. 



M. Troyon is of opinion that the inhabitants of Switzer- 

 land during the Bronze age were of a different race from 

 those who had lived there during the earlier period, and he 

 agrees with some of the Scandinavian archaeologists in re- 

 garding them as the true "Celts," and in attributing to them 

 the habit of burning their dead. "Des que le bronze se 

 repand en Europe, 1'incin^ration devient d'un usage general. 

 L'apparition d'un nouveau peuple repond evidemment a eelle 

 de ce metal. L'urne cineraire, de meme que la tombe cu- 

 bique, se retrouve sous la surface du sol ou dans le tumulus, 

 mais celui-ci, generalement moins eleve* que dans 1'age pri- 

 mitif, ne recouvre plus guere de salle funeraire. Quand on 

 voit combien il est rare que le bronze accompagne le premier 

 mode d'inhumation, on doit reconnaitre que 1'envahisseur est 

 reste maitre du sol ; du reste il ne pouvait en etre autrement 

 de la part d'un peuple possedant des armes en metal, or ces 

 armes sont celles des anciens Celtes qui n'inhumaient point 

 leur morts, mais les livraient au flammes du bucher. L'in- 

 cineration etant une partie integrante de leurs pratiques 

 religieuses, et Turne cineraire devenant d'un usage g^n^ral 

 avec le bronze, il en r^sulte que le Celte n'est pas le premier 

 habitant de 1'Europe dans laquelle il a introduit les arts 

 metallurgiques." It would be very desirable to have some 

 statistics in order that we might appreciate the value of the 



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