MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT PORT ERIN. 



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Age, though some have remained in use into historic 

 times. Until the Manks examples have been more care- 

 fully examined it is impossible to say to which precise 

 period they belong. 



Comparatively few loose articles of bronze have been 

 recorded, and of these most have been lost. So far as is 

 known, those found consist of celts plain and socketed, 

 palstaves, swords, dagger and spear heads, and sickles (see 

 fig. 20, showing a group of characteristic forms). 



Fig. 20. Bronze weapons from the Isle of Man. , 



Many of the polished stone implements, all of which 

 appear to be of foreign material, must have been intro- 

 duced during this period (see fig. 21, which shows some of 

 those now collected at Castle Kushen). 



Fig. 21. Manks polished stone implements of Bronze Age. 



