A fine gouge (about 5½ inches) with a moulded top is in the museum at Clermont Ferrand (Puy de Dôme). A very fine French gouge of this character is in the British Museum. I have a specimen much like Fig. 208 found in the Seine at Paris. Others were in the hoard at Dreuil, near Amiens, and in a second hoard also found near that town. Large gouges with moulded tops, from the Stations of Auvernier,[626] in the Lake of Neuchâtel, and Mœrigen, in the Lake of Bienne, are in Dr. Victor Gross’s collection. There was at least one socketed gouge in the great Bologna hoard. In Germany they are very rare, but one from the museum at Sigmaringen, with a somewhat decorated socket, is engraved by Lindenschmit. It was found at Kempten, Bavaria.[627] Others, from Düren and Deurne, North Brabant, Holland, are in the museum at Leyden. A socketed gouge, with the edge turned to a sweep of about 1 inch radius, is in the museum at Agram, Croatia. One from Siberia[628] has been figured by Worsaae. HAMMERS AND ANVILS. Another form of tool constructed with a socket to receive the handle in precisely the same manner as the socketed celts and gouges is the hammer. It is worthy of notice that, though perforated hammers formed of stone are comparatively abundant in this country, yet that instruments of the same kind in bronze are unknown. It is true that what looks like a perforated hammer, said to be of bronze, was found in Newport, Lincoln, and is engraved in the _Archæological Journal_,[629] but there is no evidence of its belonging to the same period as the ordinary tools formed of bronze; and the suggestion that it may have been the extremity of a bell-clapper is, I think, not far from the truth. It is very probable that many of the perforated stone hammers belong to the Bronze Period of this country, as do doubtless most of the perforated stone battle-axes or axe-hammers; for in the early part of the Bronze Period it is likely that metal was far too valuable to be used for heavy tools and weapons, and even towards the close of the period it seems as if it was only the lighter kind of hammers which were formed of bronze. The heaviest I possess weighs only five ounces, and the lightest less than half that weight. As will subsequently be seen, it is possible that some of these instruments were of the nature of anvils rather than of hammers, but for the present it will be most convenient to speak of them under the latter name.