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 386 ON THE USE OF BRONZE CELTS one side of the cleft wooden handle. Here we observe the contrivance which I endeavoured to illustrate by the diagram in § VI., p. 375. The upper part of the celt, destined to be inserted into the cleft handle, would be slightly contracted from above downwards, so that, when the celt and its handle were bound together, they would be inseparable. We next observe two notches or tenons on the two sides and a little below the middle of the mould, which are fitted to two mortices in the other half, and are designed to assist in keeping the two halves in their proper position. No pro- vision is here made for decorating the blade of the celt. We perceive only a longitudinal ridge, which would tend in a slight degree to strengthen it. The celts cast in this mould would be large and strong enough for all the uses, of which mention is made in tliis memoir. With the mould which I have now descrilicd, we may contrast that mentioned in i]Q Archacoloqin,xo. xxii., p. 424