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
One (3¾ inches) with six small vertical ribs on the faces, found at
Downton, near Salisbury, is in the Blackmore Museum. In a celt with
square socket from the Carlton Rode find there are traces of six ribs
on one of the faces only. This specimen, in my own collection, is
in good condition, and the probability is in favour of this almost
complete obliteration of the pattern being due to a succession of
moulds having been formed, each rather more indistinct than the one
before it, in which the model that served for the mould was cast.
Celts closely resembling Fig. 129 are in the museums at Nantes and
Narbonne.[446]
As an instance of a celt having only two of these vertical ribs upon
it, I may mention a large one in my own collection (4¾ inches) found
in the Isle of Portland. The mouth of the socket is oval, but the
external faces are flat, the sides being rounded. The ribs run about
2½ inches down the faces, but the metal is too much oxidised to see
whether they end in pellets or no.
[Illustration: Fig. 130.—Ely. ½]
[Illustration: Fig. 131.—Caston. ½]
It is not unfrequently the case that the ribs thus terminate in
roundels or pellets. That from the Fens, near Ely, which has been
kindly lent me by Mr. Marshall Fisher, and is shown in Fig. 130, is of
this kind, though the pellets are so indistinct as to have escaped the
eye of the engraver. This celt is remarkable for the unusually broad
and heavy moulding at the top. The notches in the edge, which the
engraver has reproduced, are of modern origin.
The celt from Caston, Norfolk, shown in Fig. 131, has also the three
ribs ending in pellets, but there are short diagonal lines branching
in each direction from the central rib near the top.
I have another of the same kind, but longer, and without the diagonal
lines, from Thetford, Suffolk.
A celt of this type is in the Stockholm Museum.
[Illustration: Fig. 132.—Carlton Rode. ½]
[Illustration: Fig. 133.—Fornham. ½]
In Figs. 132 and 133 are shown two celts of this class, one with five
short ribs ending in pellets, from the Carlton Rode find, and the
other with five longer ribs ending in larger roundels, from Fornham,
near Bury St. Edmunds. The latter was bequeathed to me by my valued
friend, the late Mr. J. W. Flower, F.G.S.
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