[206] Prehistoric Man, by Daniel Wilson, LL.D. (London, 1869), vol. i. p. 308.
[207] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1865, p. 126.
[208] Rawlinson, Five Great Monarchies (1864), vol. i. p. 120.
Arma antiqua manus, ungues, dentesque fuerunt
Et lapides, et item sylvarum fragmina rami,
Et flamma atque ignis postquam sunt cognita primum
Posterius ferri vis est aerisque reperta,
Et prior aeris erat quam ferri cognitus usus,
Quo facilis magis est natura, et copia maior.—V. 1282.
[210] Strabo, b. iii. c. iii. 6, p. 154.
[211] Max Müller, Science of Language, 2nd Series (1864), pp. 229-37.
[212] Nilsson, The Primitive Inhabitants of Scandinavia (Lubbock, 3rd ed., 1868), p. 257.
[213] Sir Richard Colt Hoare found four of these celts in the Wiltshire barrows, with rudimentary flanges along the side edges of the blade that had been formed by beating, and similarly formed flanges have also been noticed upon celts from Ireland, thereby leading to the supposition that Class B may have been converted into Class D in this way, before the casting process was applied to the formation of the flanges.—The Ancient History of South Wiltshire (London, 1812), p. 203, pl. xxi, xxvi, xxviii. 2, xxix.
[214] (The greatly reduced scale of these figures makes exact verification of the references impracticable in all cases.—Ed.)