Fig. 530—Harty. ½
General A. Pitt Rivers, F.R.S., has one from the neighbourhood of Macon.[1706]
M. Charles Seidler, of Nantes, has another.
Another from the hoard of Notre-Dame d’Or, Vienne, is in the museum at Poitiers.
M. Forel has another found in the Lake-dwellings at Morges.[1707]
A palstave mould of bronze, found near Medingen, is in the museum at Hanover.[1708] The half of one found at Polsen, near Merseburg,[1709] is in that of Berlin.
Another bronze mould from the neighbourhood of Grünberg,[1710] is in the museum at Darmstadt.
There are several bronze moulds of this character in the Museum of Northern Antiquities at Copenhagen.
In Figs. 530 and 531 are engraved the halves of two moulds for casting socketed celts of different sizes and patterns, which were found with a number of other relics in the Isle of Harty, Sheppey, and are now in my own collection. I have already given an account of this discovery elsewhere;[1711] but as it throws so much light upon the whole process of casting as practised towards the close of the Bronze Period, it will be desirable to give a somewhat detailed account of the entire find and its teachings in this place.
The hoard, which may very fairly be described as the stock-in-trade of an ancient bronze-founder, consisted of the following articles—