220 Hoard of Bronze Axes from Windsor. 
model.* The varying contraction of the clay in drying 
would account for the differences, particularly in the degree 
of ornamentation beneath the stop ridges. 
There is a general ‘un-English ’ appearance about these 
axes, suggesting their importation from the north of France, or 
having been copied from a French example. But the most 
remarkable feature in connection with them is their extra- 
ordinarily brittle nature, and the peculiar way in which 
* See Proc.' Antiq. Soc., Vo- 1 .. XVII., p. 132^ 
Naturalist 
