TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:
—Obvious print and punctuation errors were corrected.
—Huge tables at pages 460 to 463 have been rendered as illustration.
—The transcriber of this project created the book coverimage using the front cover of the original book. The imageis placed in the public domain.
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THE ANCIENT
BRONZE IMPLEMENTS,
WEAPONS, AND ORNAMENTS,
OF
GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
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[iii]
THE ANCIENT
BRONZE IMPLEMENTS,
WEAPONS, AND ORNAMENTS,
OF
GREAT BRITAIN
AND
IRELAND.
BY
JOHN EVANS, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S.,
F.S.A., F.G.S., Pres. Num. Soc., &c.
LONDON:
LONGMANS, GREEN, & CO.
1881.
(All rights reserved.)
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LONDON
PRINTED BY VIRTUE AND CO., LIMITED
CITY ROAD.
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PREFACE.
The work which is now presented to the public has unfortunatelybeen many years in progress, as owing to various occupations, bothprivate and public, the leisure at my command has been butsmall, and it has been only from time to time, often at longintervals, that I have been able to devote a few hours to itsadvancement. During this slow progress the literature of thesubject, especially on the Continent, has increased in an unprecedentedlyrapid manner, and I have had great difficulty in at allkeeping pace with it.
I have, however, done my best, both by reading and travel, tokeep myself acquainted with the discoveries that were being madeand the theories that were being broached with regard to bronzeantiquities, whether abroad or at home, and I hope that so far asfacts are concerned, and so far as relates to the present state ofinformation on the subject, I shall not be found materiallywanting.
Of course in a work which treats more especially of the bronzeantiquities of the British Islands, I have not felt bound to enlargemore than was necessary for the sake of comparison on the correspondingantiquities of other countries. I have, however, in allcases pointed out such analogies in form and character as seemedto me of importance as possibly helping to throw light on thesource whence our British bronze civilisation was derived.
It may by some be thought that a vast amount of uselesstrouble has been bestowed in figuring and describing so manyvarieties of what were after all in most cases the ordinary tools ofthe artificer, or the common arms of the warrior or huntsman, whichdiffered from each other only in apparently unimportant particular                        
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