Celtic art in Pagan and Christian timesAllen, J. Romilly (John Romilly)
Philosophy
Celtic art in Pagan and Christian times
Allen, J. Romilly (John Romilly)
Art, Celtic
Bronze sword- and dagger-sheaths have been found in considerable
numbers in England, and also less frequently in Scotland and Ireland,
as will be seen from the lists given below.
_List of Localities in Great Britain where Bronze_
_Sword-sheaths of the Late-Celtic Period have been found._
Carham Northumberland.
Embleton Cumberland.
Houghton le Skerne Co. Durham.
Sadberge Co. Durham.
Warton Lancashire.
Stanwick Yorkshire.
Catterdale Yorkshire.
Flasby Yorkshire.
Grimthorpe Yorkshire.
Lincoln Lincolnshire.
Hunsbury Northamptonshire.
Amerden Buckinghamshire.
Water Eaton Oxfordshire.
Dorchester Oxfordshire.
Boxmoor Hertfordshire.
London Middlesex.
Battersea Middlesex.
Icklingham Suffolk.
Hod Hill Dorsetshire.
Moreton Hall Midlothian.
Glencotho Peeblesshire.
Bargany House Ayrshire.
Lisnacroghera Co. Antrim.
_List of Localities in Great Britain where Bronze_
_Dagger-sheaths of the Late-Celtic Period have been found._
River Witham Lincolnshire.
North Hinksey Oxfordshire.
Wandsworth Surrey.
Southwark Surrey.
Cookham Berkshire.
Athenry Co. Galway.
Some of these sheaths are elaborately ornamented, more especially the
specimens from Hunsbury, Lisnacroghera, and the River Witham. The shape
of the sheaths was evidently derived from a foreign source, as may be
seen by comparing those found in Great Britain with the examples from
Hallstatt and La Tène.
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