Brome Implement found near Currie, Mid-Lothian, 99 
is quite apparent (see fig. 4, copied from M. Troyon's work, pi. x. 
%. 8 ; and, like the others, drawn to half its original size). Its 
size also closely corresponds to the others ; the Uades on each 
side measuring 2| inches, nearly ahout the same length as the 
blades of the other bronzes described, and the projecting handle 2\ 
inches ; its whole length being about 4i inches, by about 3 inches 
in breadth measured transversely across the crescentio blades. 
The Kinleith bronze being 3i inches in length by 2^ inches 
across ; and each blade measuring 2|- inches in length ; while 
the Irish bronze measures 3|- inches long, by 1| inches across its 
solid double-edged blade. 
I examined M. Troyon's very valuable work, with a special 
interest, to learn what was his opinion of the supposed use of this 
blade, or crescent of bronze as he terms it, and found that he gives 
a very different explanation to the one here suggested, and having 
nothing whatever to do with the affairs of the toilet ! It was dis- 
covered, M. Troyon informs us, at Steinberg, near Nidau, which, 
he says, is one of the most important piled sites on the Lake of 
Bienne. He describes it as belonging to the age of bronze ; and 
refers it to a class of other crescent-shaped articles of pottery 
also found there, and considered by him as of particular interest, 
because that to them, he fancies, some mysterious or supernatural 
character had been attached. 
Siuiss Crescents of Pottery and Bronze. — Colonel Schwab, M. 
Troyon informs us, discovered at Steinberg more than a score of 
these crescents, formed of a coarse white pottery, ornamented with 
various lines, and having broken particles of quartz kneaded into 
the clay of which they were formed. They vary in size, measuring 
from 8 to 12 (French) inches, from point to point of the horns of 
the crescent; and at the horns they are from 6 to 8 inches in 
height. (I exhibit sketches of these articles, copied from M, 
Troyon's work, which will show their character better than any 
description.)^ The lake town of Steinberg, M. Troyon believes, 
was occupied from a very ancient period ; he considers, however, that 
this symbol of the crescent had not been in use in the very earliest 
times, or it would have been found in other places along with the 
most ancient class of remains, which appears not to be the case, as 
far at least as present discoveries have shown. In 1851, however, 
at Ebersberg, not far from Berg, in the Canton of Zurich, several 
fragments of similar crescents, formed of stone, were found along 
with very ancient remains, M. Troyon, therefore, concludes that 
^ M. Troyon's Habit. Lacust., pi. xvi. p. 184. Lausanne (1860). 
