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shaped axes (see Fig. 116), originally modelled from a prototype in stone.

Fig. 114.—Bronze Dagger-blade, Round Barrow, East Kennet, Wilts, 2/3.

Fig. 115.—Bronze Dagger-blade, Barrow, Camerton, Somerset, 2/3.

In one case in Italy a polished stone celt has been cast in bronze. To it belong nearly all the burial-places referable to the Bronze age in this country. In the following table the contents of those explored by the Rev. W. Greenwell^[1] in the North of England, by Mr. Bateman^[2] in Derbyshire, and Dr. Thurnam^[3] in Wiltshire, are tabulated so as to show the manner in which the articles are associated together. It will be observed that the higher forms of bronze implements and weapons are entirely absent.

1. Greenwell and Rolleston, Ancient British Barrows, 8vo, 1877.
2. Vestiges of the Antiquities of Derbyshire. For detailed tables, see Lubbock, Prehistoric Times, 4th edit. pp. 148-151.
3. Archæologia, xliii. pp. 285 et seq.