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 nearly similar, supposed to have been found in Yorkshire,
together with the mould in which it was cast, is engraved in the
_Archæologia_.[458] The mould was regarded as a case in which the
instrument was kept. Another of the same kind seems to have been
found, with other celts and fragments of swords and spears, at
Bilton,[459] Yorkshire. I have seen another, 4 inches long, from
the hoard found at Martlesham, Suffolk, already mentioned. A broken
specimen, found with a socketed gouge and an article like Fig. 493, at
Roseberry Topping,[460] in Cleveland, Yorkshire, appears to be of this
kind. Another (5 inches long), found at Minster, Kent, is in the Mayer
Collection at Liverpool. I have also one from the Cambridge Fens.
[Illustration: Fig. 151.—Newham. ½]
In the collection of Canon Greenwell, F.R.S., are three socketed
celts with octagonal necks, which were found with others, both plain
and having three ribs on the face, together with a looped palstave,
at Haxey, Lincolnshire. Two of these are of the usual type, but the
third (3½ inches) is shorter and broader, resembling in outline the
common Irish form, Fig. 167. A celt apparently of the type of Fig.
150, but with a double bead round the top, was found in the Severn,
at Holt,[461] Worcestershire. In the Faussett Collection, now at
Liverpool, is a celt of this kind, with the angles engrailed or
“milled.” This was probably found in Kent.
A celt of this type, found at Orgelet, Jura, is figured by
Chantre,[462] as well as one from the Lac du Bourget.[463] They have
also been found in the Department of La Manche.[464] I have one from
the hoard found at Dreuil, near Amiens, the neck of which is decagonal.
Nearly the same form has been found in Sweden.[465]
Another example, more trumpet-mouthed, is shown in Fig. 151, from
the collection of Canon Greenwell, F.R.S. It was found in 1868 in
draining at Newham, Northumberland. I have another of nearly the same
form (4¾ inches), from Coveney, in the Isle of Ely. Another, found at
Stanhope,[466] Durham, without loop, and with two holes near the top,
was regarded as an instrument for sharpening spear-heads.
Occasionally the neck of the blade is hexagonal instead of octagonal.
In one found at Ty-Mawr,[467] on Holyhead Mountain, Anglesea, the
hexagonal character is continued to the mouth. The socket is of an
irregularly square form. It was found with a socketed knife, a tanged
chisel, spear-heads, &c., which are now in the British Museum. This
form occurs more frequently in Ireland. A nearly similar celt has been
found in the Lake of Geneva.[468]
Another celt, with the neck irregularly octagonal, but with a series
of mouldings round the mouth of the socket, is shown in Fig. 152. The
original is in the collection of Canon Greenwell, and formed part of
the hoard found at Westow, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, already
mentioned at p. 118.
[Illustration: Fig. 152.—Westow. ½]
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