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
It seems probable that the instruments from Blandford, now in the
British Museum, formed part of a large hoard, for in the collection
of the late Mr. Medhurst, of Weymouth, were a dozen or more of much
the same outline and character. The section at the neck is a flattened
hexagon. Some have a straight rib on each of the sloping sides, as
well as two curved lines on the flat face. Others have three lines,
one straight and two curved, on the flat face, each ending in a
pellet; and others again have merely a central line on the flat face.
A celt of nearly the same outline as Fig. 146 (4¼ inches), found at
Gembling, Yorkshire, E. R., has slight flutings down the angles for
about two-thirds of its length. It is in the collection of Canon
Greenwell, F.R.S.
Another of these instruments, ornamented in the same manner, but
having a curved edge, is shown in Fig. 147, from an original in
the British Museum. It formed part of the Cooke Collection from
Parsonstown, King’s County, but I doubt its being really Irish.
A rare form of socketed celt is shown in Fig. 148. The original was
found in the Fens, near Barrington, Cambridge, and is in my own
collection. It has at the top of the blade, below the moulding, a
shield-shaped ornament, of much the same character as that on the
palstaves, like Fig. 60, but in this case formed by indented lines
cast in the metal.
[Illustration: Fig. 147. Ireland? ½]
[Illustration: Fig. 148. Barrington. ½]
[Illustration: Fig. 149. Hounslow. ½]
[Illustration: Fig. 150. Wallingford. ½]
Another, of unusually narrow form, found at Thames Ditton,[456] is in
the Museum of the Society of Antiquaries.
A broader celt, ornamented with a reversed chevron, formed of three
raised ribs, and with short single ribs on each side, is shown in Fig.
149. It was found at Hounslow, with a flat celt, a palstave, and a
socketed celt like Fig. 112, and is now in the British Museum.
A more common form has a circular socket and moulded top, below which
the neck of the blade is an almost regular octagon. That shown in
Fig. 150 is in my own collection, and was found at Wallingford,[457]
Berks, in company with a socketed gouge, a tanged chisel (Fig. 193), a
socketed knife, and a two-edged cutting tool or razor (Fig. 269).
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