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Rh 20, for instance, at Morges, 26 at Estavayer, and about 100 at Nidau; In Ireland they appear to be very rare; the Dublin Museum does not contain one. They were generally fitted into handles of bone, horn, or wood, and the blade was almost always more or less curved; those of iron knives, on the contrary, being generally straight.

Fig. 48 represents a bronze knife figured in Lee's translation of Keller, page 276, and said to have been found at Thebes by Sir Gardner Wilkinson. The type, however, is not Egyptian. It is just possible that the knife may have been carried to that country in ancient times, but it seems more probable that there is an error as to the locality.

The small bronze razor-knives (figs. 45, 46), indeed, have straight edges, but they are quite of a different character from the iron knives; from the ornaments engraved on them, I am disposed to regard them as belonging to a late period in the Age of Bronze, if not in some cases to the