A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . re elaborate form(fig. 99), the grip cast separately :blades, with piart of the shaft, ofhalberts like the comjjlete one inthis Case (fig. 101) ; and a pick(fig. 100) with comparativelysmall shaft-hole in the centre.In some cases the hole is too small to admit even a metal shaft, and it has Ijeen suggestedthat the raw material was imported in this form (somewhat likethe iron Osmunds of the middle ages), several pieces being heldtogether by a cord passed through the central hole. One specimenwit
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A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . re elaborate form(fig. 99), the grip cast separately :blades, with piart of the shaft, ofhalberts like the comjjlete one inthis Case (fig. 101) ; and a pick(fig. 100) with comparativelysmall shaft-hole in the centre.In some cases the hole is too small to admit even a metal shaft, and it has Ijeen suggestedthat the raw material was imported in this form (somewhat likethe iron Osmunds of the middle ages), several pieces being heldtogether by a cord passed through the central hole. One specimenwith this small perforation has been analysed and found to be ofpure copper; and it is not improbable that more than one piece inthe Neuenheiligen find has no tin in its composition. Daggerslike fig. 99 were evidently of local manufacture, based on theItalian terramara tyjjes also found in Germany. Another groui)of the early Bronze age is from Beitzsch, near Pforten, Prank-furt-on-Oder ; the ornamented dagger or halbert-lalade serving todate the conical helmet and swelling armlets with rolled tei--. $» Hijiniiigton, 98 DESCRIPTION OF CASE G minals of which there are other examples in this Case. Otherobjects of the same early date are the remarkable halbert fromPotsdam (iig. 101), the modern appearance of which is partly dueto cleaning ; and a dagger found with a slender celt at Wemiar.It was from celts of this type that the long socketed celt ofScandinavia was ultimately derived. In the series of German celts on the right, the winged varietyis predominant, though the palstave without loop as well as