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swords, daggers, axes, spear-heads, knives, arrow-heads, pins, 
and ornaments. The number of these weapons which have 
been discovered is already very great. 
From the settlement at Estavayer, in Lake Neufchatel, 
the following collection of bronze implements has been 
obtained : — 
Pins with large spherical and 
ornamented heads . .36 
Pins with ordinary heads . 92 
Knives . . . .26 
Bracelets . . . .15 
Sickles ..... 5 
Axe 1 
Hook 1 
Chisel 1 
Small rings . . . .27 
Buttons .... 2 
Dagger blade ... 1 
Arrow head .... 1 
Pieces of spiral wire . . 6 
Making altogether . .214 objects of 
bronze. 
Again at Morges (Lake of Geneva) forty-two bronze 
hatchets and thirteen pins have been found. From the Stein- 
berg M. Schwab has obtained five hundred bronze hair-pins, 
besides other instruments of the same metal. These are of 
the same type as those found in other parts of Europe, and 
the swords are characterised, as usual, by the small space 
allowed for the hand. They were, however, made in 
Switzerland, as is shown by the discovery at Morges of a 
mould for celts, and at Estavayer of a bar of tin. 
The pottery of this period was more varied and more skil- 
fully made than that of the stone age, and the potter's wheel 
