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38 beginning of that of Iron. Indeed, the Flensborg Museum contains a razor-knife, said to have been found together with objects of the latter metal. A somewhat similar pattern occurs on the knife fig. 42, which, from the human figure forming the handle, I should also refer to the Iron Age.

Ornaments of bronze do not, like the weapons, of that metal, characterize a definite period, but may belong to any age. Some forms have maintained themselves almost unchanged for ages. The "safety-pin," for instance, was invented in the Bronze Age. Before, therefore, we refer any particular ornament to this period, we must know the circumstances under which it was found. The following illustrations are, however, principally from the Swiss