Bronze Implement found near Currie, Mid-Lothian. 95 



Bronze Implement found. — The bronze implement found is a very 

 curious one. (See fig. 1, where it is drawn of the full size.) We 

 have nothing like it in our Museum ; and I have not been able to 

 find a notice of any similar weapon having been discovered in 

 Britain. It has been formed probably from a plate of bronze, cast 

 in a mould, and afterwards finished with a tool, the edges being 



Fig. 1. 



Bronze Implement found at Kinleith, Mid-Lothian. (Scale, size of original.) 



thin and sharp, and the thicker central part terminating in a 

 circular loop or ring, which forms a handle, and this handle is 

 further defined by openings left in the central part of the plate, 

 the result being the regular figure which the whole forms, with its 

 two pairs of bent branches passing outwards on each side from the 

 central bar or handle, and each pair supporting a crescentic or 

 semicircular blade, which becomes gradually thinner towards its 

 outer and rounded margin. In cutting out or finishing these 



