and Eastern India, but the shoulders were there cut in the stone-blades themselves.
Fig. 98.—Axe in stag's-horn socket—Concise. 12
One of the Swiss instruments in its complete form is shown in Fig. 99, which I have copied from Keller.[1] It was found at Robenhausen, and the club-like handle is of ash. Several other specimens are engraved by the same author and Professor Desor,[2] and by other more recent writers.
In some instances the stone was inserted lengthways[3] into the end of a tine of a stag's horn at the part where it had been severed from the antler, so as to form a sort of chisel.[4] In other cases the socket was worked through the tine, and the stone blade fixed in it after the manner of an axe, though the handle was too short for the tool to be used for chopping. Some wooden handles[5] are also but a few inches long, so that the celts mounted in them must have been used for cutting by drawing them along the object to be cut.
Fig. 99.—Axe—Robenhausen. 14
Such stag's-horn sockets have occurred, though rarely, in France. M. Perrault found some in his researches in the Camp de Chassey,
- ↑ "Lake-Dwellings," pl. x. 7; 5ter "Bericht," pl. x. 17. Another from St. Aubin is engraved by Chantre, "Etudes Paléoethn.," pl. xi. Keller has published several others. See also "Ant. Lac. du Mus. de Lausanne," 1896, pl. iii.
- ↑ "Palafittes," fig. 17. See also Troyon, "Habit. Lacust."; but some of his engravings, like those of Meillet in the "Epoques Antédil. et Celtique de Poitou," appear to have been made from modern fabrications.
- ↑ Keller, "Lake-Dwellings," pl. xxii. 7. "Mus. de Lausanne," 1896, pl. iii.
- ↑ "Wilde's" Cat. Mus. R.I.A.," p. 251; Lindenschmit, "Sigmaringen," pl. xxix. 7; Keller, "Lake-Dwellings," pl. ii.
- ↑ Ibid., pl. xxii. 12.
