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
Celts of wider proportions, and having the three ribs farther apart,
have been frequently found in the Northern English counties. I have
one (3¼ inches) from Middleton, on the Yorkshire Wolds, which was
given me by Mr. H. S. Harland; and Canon Greenwell, F.R.S., has
several from Yorkshire. The celt which was found near Tadcaster,[426]
in that county, and which has been so often cited, from the fact of
its having a large bronze ring passing through the loop, on which
is a jet bead, is also of this type. There can be little doubt that
the ring and bead, which not improbably were found at the same time
as the celt, were attached to it subsequently by the finder, in the
manner in which they may now be seen in the British Museum. A celt
with three ribs, from the hoard found at Westow,[427] in the North
Riding, has been figured, as has been one from Cuerdale,[428] near
Preston, Lancashire, and one (4½ inches) from Rockbourn Down,[429]
Wilts, now in the British Museum. One (3¾ inches long) was found near
Hull,[430] in Yorkshire; and five others at Winmarley,[431] near
Garstang, Lancashire, together with two spears, one of them having
crescent-shaped openings in the blade (Fig. 419).
Another was found, with other bronze objects, at Stanhope,[432] Durham.
The celts found with spear-heads and discs near Newark, and now in
Canon Greenwell’s collection, are of this type, but of different
sizes. That found at Cann,[433] near Shaftesbury, with, it is said, a
human skeleton and two ancient British silver coins, had three ribs on
its face.
Several others were found in the hoard at West Halton,[434]
Lincolnshire, already mentioned. Others were discovered in company
with a looped palstave, some spear-heads, ferrules, fragments of
swords, and a tanged knife, near Nottingham,[435] in 1860. Seven or
eight such celts, and the half of a bronze mould in which to cast
them, were found with a socketed knife, spear-heads, and numerous
other objects, in the Heathery Burn Cave,[436] near Stanhope, Durham,
of which further mention will subsequently be made. Many have also
been found in Yorkshire and Northumberland.
The type is not confined to the Northern Counties, for specimens
occurred in the great find at Carlton Rode,[437] near Attleborough,
Norfolk. I have seen another, 4 inches long, which was found with
many other socketed celts and other articles at Martlesham, Suffolk,
in the hoard already mentioned (p. 113). I have one (3⅝ inches)
from Llandysilio, Denbighshire. Another, with traces of the three
ribs, was found at Pulborough,[438] Sussex. This specimen is in
outline more like Fig. 130. A socketed celt of this kind (5 inches
long), with three parallel ribs on the flat surface, was found near
Launceston,[439] Cornwall. Some long celts of the same kind were found
at Karn Brê, in the same county, as already mentioned.
[Illustration: Fig. 126.—Mynydd-y-Glas. ½]
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