The Ancient Bronze Implements, Weapons, and Ornaments, of Great Britain and Ireland.Evans, John
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The Ancient Bronze Implements, Weapons, and Ornaments, of Great Britain and Ireland.
Evans, John
Bronze age -- Great Britain; Bronze age -- Ireland; Great Britain -- Antiquities
In Fig. 111 is shown a larger celt in my own collection, found in
the neighbourhood of Dorchester, Oxon. The wing ornament no longer
consists of a solid plate, but the outlines of the wings of the
palstave are shown by two bold projecting beads which extend over
the sides of the celt as well as the faces. The socket is circular
at the mouth, but the neck of the instrument below the moulding
is subquadrate in section. In the socket are two small projecting
longitudinal ribs, probably intended to aid in steadying the haft.
Such projections are not very uncommon, and are sometimes more than
two in number.
A celt ornamented in a similar manner, but with two raised bands
near the mouth, was found with several other socketed celts and some
palstaves with the wings bent over at Cumberlow,[395] near Baldock,
Herts. Some of these are in the British Museum.
Another with two small pellets between the curved lines was found in a
hoard at Beddington,[396] Surrey.
[Illustration: Fig. 112.—Wilts. ½.]
[Illustration: Fig. 113.—Harty. ½.]
Fig. 112 represents another celt of much the same character, but with
a bolder moulding at top, and a slight projecting bead all round the
instrument just below the two curved lines representing the palstave
wings, which on these celts have just the appearance of heraldic
“flanches.” On the face not shown there is a triangular projection
at the top like a “pile in chief” between the flanches. Inside the
socket there are two longitudinal projections as in the last. The
original of this figure, which has been broken and repaired with the
edge of another celt, is in the Blackmore Museum at Salisbury, and was
probably found in Wilts.
In the British Museum is an example of this type (4 inches) which has
on one face only a pellet in the upper part of the compartment between
the two “flanches.” It was found at Hounslow.
Another (4 inches) from the Heathery Burn Cave, Durham, is now in the
collection of Canon Greenwell, F.R.S. I have one with the pattern less
distinct from a hoard found in the Barking Marshes, Essex, in 1862. A
celt much of the same pattern, but without the transverse line below
the flanches, was found on Plumpton Plain,[397] near Lowes.
The same type occurs in France. I have examples from a hoard found
at Dreuil, near Amiens. The same ornament is often seen on Hungarian
celts, though usually without the lower band.
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