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A RESEARCH committee of the British Association, first appointed twenty years ago at the Birmingham meeting, to report on the distribution of bronze age implements, reported at the Leicester meeting that its labours, so far as England and Wales are concerned, are now completed. With a few insignificant exceptions, all the specimens in museums and private collections in England and Wales, in the Isle of Man and in the Channel Islands, a majority of the specimens in Scotland, a considerable number of those in Ireland, and early specimens from the Museum in Copenhagen have been drawn, measured and described in an illustrated card catalogue, which is deposited, and is available for consultation, in the rooms of the Society of Antiquaries, London. The most important exceptions in the list of specimens are those of foreign origin in the British Museum, the Ashmolean and the museum at York. The original intention of the committee when it was first appointed was, by international co-operation, to extend the catalogue to cover the whole of Europe and the adjacent lands. The question was raised at the meeting of the Association Fran§aise in July 1914, but came to nothing owing to the War while a further attempt to secure international action made at the Prehistoric Congress in 1932, has, as yet, produced no result.
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Bronze Age Implements. Nature 132, 437 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132437a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/132437a0