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Title: A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of British and mediæval antiquities and ethnology Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929
Subjects: Bronze age
Publisher: (London) : Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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had a total length of about 24 in.It is of comparatively early date, and is obviously derived froma common form of dagger exhibited next to it, a socket havingbeen added for use on a shaft and the studs no doubt representingthe rivets on the base of the prototype. Pointed blades, called
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Plate VII. Copper Implements, Gunueria, Balaghat, Central India.(Coses 47, 48, wc p. 67.) KIVER THAMES 69 knives, knife-diiggers, or rapiers, ucooiding to tlieir leiigtli, are well lepresented, the handles being fixed by means of a tang or rivets. A notable example of the Italian terramara type (fig. 48) was no doubt imported through France. A good sword-blade, ornamented pin (fig. 49), spear-head with i-emains of shaft, and palstave (lig. 50), were found together near the mouth of the Wandle. For more perfect swords and other objects from the Thames, see the upper part of Cases 0, 7 ; and for types of sickles more usual in these islands than that from Taplow (fig. 67), see Case D. On the East side are weapons fromScotland, Wales, and the Thames. FromAberdeenshire a group of two swords,pin with disc-head turned over on thestem, and chape like fig. 14. The globular

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