Metal Objects.—([Fig. 45].) The total number of metal objects now in the Museum at Laibach, and tabulated as coming from the lake-dwellings, is 24. They are all either of bronze or copper, as hitherto not a trace of iron has anywhere been met with. The following is a list of them:—
1. Two flat-handled bronze swords 21 and 14½ inches long (Nos. 3 and 4).
2. Three bronze daggers, 11½, 8, and 7½, inches long (Nos. 2, 1, and 7). The larger has four rivets for fastening a handle; the next has six rivets, and the blade is beautifully ornamented; and the third has two rivet-holes, arranged differently from those in the other two.
3. A winged bronze celt (No. 5); and one of the flat type (No. 9), said to be of copper.
4. Portions of three bronze pins (Nos. 12 and 13).
5. Two thin bracelets of bronze, much worn.
6. Five peculiar objects of copper, like awls (Nos. 6 and 8).
7. Seven objects like daggers, lance-heads, or knives, rudely hammered, are also supposed to be of pure copper (Nos. 10 and 11).
The winged celt and the larger of the two swords are not noticed in either of the reports of the various investigations, but I am assured they form part of the same find; and, in corroboration of this, I find they are included in a photograph issued by the authorities of the Museum, purporting to be a representation of all the metal objects from the Pfahlbauten.