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permanently secured by strappings round and round both the handle and the blade. In celt b, we find a rivet-hole at its termination, the use of which is shewn in the annexed sketch, but this feature is of rare occurrence.
Although this mode of fastening is one tolerably secure, yet the ultimate effect from using the weapon as an axe must have been such as would tend to the destruction of the handle,
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by splitting and bursting the tying, and to obviate this I suppose the contrivance of the stop-ridge was adopted (figs. d, e, f, from bronze celts in the British Museum), an addition in form to the axe-head, so material and so distinctive of a metallic implement, that it has induced me to consider it as the type of the second class.
Fig. e is that of a small adze, the blade being at right angles to the axis of the wedge of insertion, which latter projects nearly an inch beyond the sides which overlapped the handle, and is terminated by what may be considered as a rivet-hole, the use of which I have shewn in the
