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BRITISH AND MEDIEVAL ROOM. 
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and in the order corresponding to that of the supposed intro- 
duction of such materials into this country. With them have 
been placed similar remains from other countries for the pur- 
pose of illustration. 
Cases 1-4. Middle Shelf (Case 1, 2). Antiquities found in the 
Drift Beds of Englaud and France, chiefly flint implements of a 
peculiar pear-shaped form. These have been found with the remains 
of the mammoth, and are believed to be the oldest remains of human 
industry hitherto discovered. Other Shelves. Implements known as 
stone celts. They appear by analogous examples, still in use among 
nations in a savage state, to have been mounted in wooden handles, 
and bound round with leathern thongs, so as to form axes. These 
are from England, Scotland, and Ireland. 
Cases 5, 6. Upper Shelves. Flint knives and arrow-heads, from 
England and Ireland ; among them a stone celt, with the remains of its 
original wooden handle. Lower Shelf. Stone implements from Jersey 
and France. 
Cases 7-10. A large collection of implements in reindeer-horn, flint, 
&c., from caves in the South of France, some of them from Bruniquel, 
near Montauban, others from Dordogne. Lower Shelf. Stone imple- 
ments from foreign countries — Italy, Portugal, Germany, Denmark, 
India, Africa, and America. 
Table Case A. A mass of breccia from the floor of a cave at Les 
Eyzies, Dordogne, containing flint and bone implements. 
Table Case B. Antiquities discovered on the site of dwellings built 
on piles in the shallow parts of the Swiss lakes. They afford much 
information as to the arts, habits, and food of the ancient inhabitants. 
In the centre of the Case are models of cromlechs, or sepulchres, in 
Cornwall and Wales. 
Cases J 1,12. Various stone implements, viz.: — Stone hammers, 
or axe-heads, pierced to receive a wooden shaft; they have been 
occasionally found with bronze weapons, and appear to be of a later 
date than the stone celts. Oval pebbles, which may have been sling- 
stones. Small sharpening stones or hones, pierced at one end for 
suspension. Circular pierced disks, which have been used as beads, or 
as whorls for the spindle. 
Oases 13-25. Implements and weapons made of bronze, a mixed 
metal, compounded of about nine-tenths of copper to one-tenth of tin. 
The sites of discovery are marked on the objects themselves. 
Cases 13-15. Illustrations of early Biitish Metallurgy. Lower 
Shelf. Stone mullers or hammers, which have been employed in 
ancient copper mines to break the ore ; cakes of copper and bronze ; 
stone mould for making rough bronze celts, and casts of moulds for 
making bronze swords. Middle Shelf. Bronze moulds for casting 
celts of various forms ; unfinished and imperfectly formed celts from 
various localities, and lumps of copper found with them. 
Cases J 0-20. Bronze implements, commonly called celts (from the 
