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 some celts with the three ribs on their faces, found in Wales, the
moulding at the top is large and heavy, and forms a sort of cornice
round the celt, the upper surface of which is flat. That engraved as
Fig. 126 was found at Mynydd-y-Glas, near Hensol, Glamorganshire, and
is now in the British Museum. In the same collection is another of
much the same character, but of ruder fabric, 4¾ inches long, with a
square socket, found in 1849 with others similar, in making the South
Wales Railway, in Great Wood,[440] St. Fagan’s, Glamorganshire. The
loop is badly cast, being filled up with metal.
Canon Greenwell has a celt of this type (4 inches), found at
Llandysilio, Denbighshire, with two others having three somewhat
converging ribs (3¾ inches and 3¼ inches), a socketed knife, and part
of a spear-head.
Two others (5⅛ inches and 4⅜ inches) were found with part of a looped
palstave[441] and a waste piece from a casting, and lumps of metal, on
Kenidjack Cliff, Cornwall. Another (4 inches) from Cornwall is in the
British Museum. One from Sedgemoor, Somersetshire, is in the Taunton
Museum.
The three-ribbed type occurs occasionally in France. Examples are in
the Museums of Amiens, Toulouse, Clermont Ferrand, Poitiers, and other
towns. Three vertical ribs are of common occurrence on celts from
Hungary and Styria.
In some rare examples the three ribs converge as they go down
the blade. One such is shown in Fig. 127. The original is in the
possession of Sir A. A. Hood, Bart., and was found with twenty-seven
other socketed celts, some of oval and some of square section, two
palstaves, two gouges, two daggers, twelve spear-heads, and numerous
fragments of celts and leaf-shaped swords, as well as rough metal and
the refuse jets from castings. The whole lay together about two feet
below the surface at Wick Park,[442] Stogursey, Somerset.
In other rare instances there is a transverse bead running across
the blade below the three vertical ribs. The celt shown in Fig. 128
was found near Guildford, Surrey, and is in the collection of Mr. R.
Fitch, F.S.A.
[Illustration: Fig. 127.—Stogursey. ½]
[Illustration: Fig. 128.—Guildford. ½]
[Illustration: Fig. 129.—Frettenham. ½]
On other celts the vertical ribs are more or less than three in
number. A specimen with four ribs, also in Mr. Fitch’s collection, is
engraved as Fig. 129. It was found at Frettenham, Norfolk.
Others with four ribs occurred in the find at West Halton,[443]
Lincolnshire, already mentioned. One was also found at the Castle
Hill,[444] Worcester, and another at Broust in Andreas,[445] Isle
of Man. Examples with three and four ribs from Kirk-patrick and
Kirk-bride, Isle of Man, are in the collection of Mr. J. R. Wallace of
Distington, Whitehaven.
One (4⅛ inches) with five ribs was found in the hoard at Martlesham,
Suffolk, also already mentioned.
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