Copper in Ancient India c7.s1.14

c7.s1.14

Mr. Ortel has obtained four fine copper specimens from Bithur—one of them being a spear-head weighing about 1 lb 9 oz., the second a hatchet weighing 2lbs 5 oz., the third a sword resembling the Fatehgarh swords in the Calcutta Museum and the fourth a small hatchet. Pandit Shāstri has secured four additional copper implements, two being harpoon heads and two hatchets. They have been chemically analysed and found to be made of copper and not bronze. In addition to these, ten more copper implements from the Bulandshar and Hardoi districts—one of them being an axe-blade, two swords, one hatchet and the remainder celts—have been collected in the Lucknow Provincial Museum.