THE BRONZE AGE. 309 
wall, crammed into a small space of about one cubic foot, and 
immediately under the surface of the earth, some swords in 
fragments, some celts and spear-heads, and lumps of metal weigh- 
ing 14 or 15 lbs. each, the whole weighing about 80 lbs., which, 
with the exception of one spear-head, were melted down im- 
mediately. These implements were not “wrapped in linen,” like 
those mentioned by Leland, as having been found many years 
before in the same parish. The farmer who had these implements 
describes them as being very hard to melt. The spear-head 
referred to was sent to Sir Joseph Banks by Mr. Malachy 
Hitchins, at the same time he forwarded those from Lanant. 
In 1812 there were found at Mawgan, in Cornwall, a rapier of 
bronze in a high state of Seoigiieee and a number of bronze 
celts.! 
At Kenidjack Cliff, Siena) an oval jet, a bronze palstave, 
and two socketed celts, were met with.? 
A bronze dagger was found with a stone celt at Benalleck, near 
Par, Cornwall. Length, 16 inches. 
A bronze palstave was found, ‘with many others, 77 a coffin at 
Godolphin Mine, Caradon, probably between 1740 and 1750.”4 
Two bronze armlets were taken from a barrow on Peninnis 
Head, in the island of St. Mary’s, Scilly, about fifty years ago. 
These are now in the museum at Truro.° 
In 1791 a bronze celt was found in a barrow in making the 
road from St. Austell to Charlestown.® 
In “Five Barrow” field, near Polperro, a fine celt of compound 
metal was found, as mentioned by Mr. Jonathan Couch, of Pol- 
perro, in 1845.7 
At Angrowse, near Mullion, on removing a circular pile of 
stones, a bronze dagger, 67 inches long, with three rivets, was 
discovered in a pit near the western side.® 
1 Archeologia, vol. xvii. p. 387. Ancient Bronze Implements, p. 465. 
Lysons’ Mag. Brit. 
2 Journal of Royal Institution of Cornwall, No. 21. Ancient Bronze 
Implements, p. 467. 
3 Nenia Cornubie, p. 5. 
4 Cornish Antiquities, Canon Rogers’ MSS., Nenia Cornubie, p. 41. 
5 Nenia Cornubice, p. 162. 
6 Canon Rocers’ MSS., Nenia Cornubice, p. 188. 
7 Neenia Cornubie, p. 189. 
8 Ibid, p. 235. 
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