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 324. GAULISH FORTRESSES OX THE COAST OF BIMTTANY. XV. — The lower }iart ul" a bronze sword, still having one ot" the pins by which the handle wns secured. XVI. — Ton fragments of swords of oxidised iron. They appear to have belonged to two diilerent weapons, one of which was curved, and little more than 1 in. in breadth. The second, which had only one cutting eilge, was somewhat less broad. All the above objects, commencing with No. VIII., came from the chamber C. XVII. — Several Hint chips, which have served as points of arrows, knives, or scrapers. These Hints have been pro- cured b}' the inhabitants of Castel Coz from the pebbles found on the sea-shore near their abode. These pebbles, which arc generally of small dimensions, give a somewhat irregular cleavage, and hence the implements thus manu- factured do not display that excellence of working that occurs in other parts of France, where Hint is not only much more abundant, but occurs in larger masses. These ciii})s were found not only in all the excavated houses in the Castel, but throughout the whole extent of the fortress, and even on the out>ide of the entrenchments. Clo.se to these chips were found a great many of the cores from which they had been detached.'* XV'III. -More than a hundred sling-stones which have been worked into their present form by natural agency alone. Their average length is about 2 in., ami they were discovered in all the houses, especially in C, where they were heaped up in a mass. In addition to these there was in all the houses that " It ifl not always safe to trust to remote districts whoro tho common flint chips, if founil near tho sea, as ovi- niatcli-box has not yet poiictratoil. obtain dunces of early oceujation, unless accom- their tiro by reducing tho thorouglily- panied with objects of such a kind as drietl roots of oak and other trees to cliar- to f ' me grounds for assii^ning coal on a slroiig and quick tiro. This char- Uj '. .iiiti'piity. In exuniining, coalistlu'n pi. iced (|iiickly in a little horn a f' a;^i>, ono of tho limst or bono box sccurid with a cork attjiched covered alleys in Kinist<5re, in the cum- by a small cojiper chain. Ily means of niunu of I'louhinec, near tho liay of a flint ami rtteel lire is obtainu<l litlu-r for Audi'-rne, I noticed in tho inU-riorsevend domestic purposes or lighting jiipes when flint chips which I could not understand, employe<l in tho Hold. Tho c^irbonised OS tho lloor of the gallery bore no Iraceit roots aro calU.<l toiil, and tho ttmt-hox of recent excivation. A puiutant, liow- was once an indispcnMalile article in a over, soon solved the niyntery by inform- Hniton farudiouMc. I'elletiir, in his ing inc that, when they want<"d a Hint dictionary of the Itreton languagi', at tho for thirir tinder box, they took some flint word louf, Nays that at the connni-nco. pebbles from the sliore and broke them merit of th« sovenl<-enth centuiy this on the maMsivn sUmen of this gallery. kind of tinder was almost universal iu Kven U) this day the lirotons, in siMne Higher iM well im ui Lower Uritlany.