A part of another was found in a hoard at Beddington, Surrey,[1724] and a fragment of another at Wickham Park, Croydon. This latter is now in the British Museum.
A bronze mould for socketed celts, found at Eikrath, was in the collection of the late Dr. Hugo Gärthe, of Cologne. Upon the outside there are six ribs with ring ornaments at the ends, diverging from a loop in the centre.
A bronze mould for socketed celts, ornamented with V-shaped lines, and found at Gnadenfeld,[1725] in Upper Silesia, is in the Berlin Museum.
Another bronze mould with an external loop, also for socketed celts, was found in Gotland,[1726] and is in the Stockholm Museum.
Fig. 533.—Heathery Burn. ½
A magnificent mould for socketed celts was found in the Cotentin[1727] in 1827. It has broad loops outside either half, with three processes from it running up and down the mould.
A bronze mould for spear-heads was exhibited in Paris in 1878. A part of another was in the Larnaud hoard, and is now in the museum at St. Germain.
There were some fragments of bronze moulds in the great Bologna hoard.
The process of casting bronze instruments in loam, clay, or sand must have been much the same as that in use at the present day; but it was very rarely that the mould consisted of more or less than two pieces. On a great many bronze instruments the joint of the mould is still visible; and in some of the large hoards, such as those which have been found in the North of France, we see the castings just as they came from the moulds, except that the runners have been broken off. For socketed celts there were usually two runners of metal; for palstaves sometimes two, and sometimes only one nearly the full width of the upper part. It is not uncommon to find castings which show that the two halves of the mould or the flasks have slipped sideways, so that they were not in proper position when the casting was made.