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
I have an example of the same kind (2⅜ inches), from Trillick, Co.
Tyrone,[507] in which there are five equidistant vertical ribs on
each face. The edge has been much hammered, so as to be considerably
recurved at the ends. Wilde[508] has figured a much larger specimen
(4½ inches), with three vertical ribs, which cross a ring, level with
the top of the loop, and run up to the lip moulding. Another,[509]
with rectangular socket, has the ribs arranged in the usual manner.
In a few instances the ribs end in pellets, and in one instance
Wilde[510] describes them as “ending in arrow points.”
A short but broad socketed celt in the Petrie Collection has on each
face six vertical ribs terminating at each end in annulets.
The socketed celts with an almost square socket and neck are not so
common in Ireland as those of the broad type with an oval neck, but
are yet not absolutely rare. Fig. 174 shows a good specimen of this
type. I have another (3½ inches), from the neighbourhood of Belfast,
rather wider at the edge, and with three flat vertical ribs below the
neck moulding.
Fig. 175 shows a short variety of the same type, from Newtown
Crommolin, Co. Antrim. One from Trillick, Co. Tyrone (2½ inches),
though nearly rectangular at the neck, has an oval socket.
Mr. Robert Day has an example (3¼ inches), from Dunshaughlin, Co.
Meath, with two beads round it, the lower one at the level of the
bottom of the loop. This celt is rectangular at the neck, though the
socket is oval.
Some few have grooves running down the angles. One from Londonderry
(4¼ inches) is in Mr. Day’s collection.
The long narrow celt with a rib ending in an annulet on the face,
engraved by Wilde as Fig. 283, appears to me to belong to Brittany
rather than to Ireland.
[Illustration: Fig. 175. Newtown Crommolin. ½]
[Illustration: Fig. 176. North of Ireland. ½]
[Illustration: Fig. 177. Ireland. ½]
An elegant type of socketed celt of not uncommon occurrence in
Ireland is shown in Fig. 176. The neck is octagonal below the rounded
trumpet mouth, which is ornamented with a series of small parallel
beads, between which a number of minute conical depressions have been
punched, making the beads appear to be corded. Around the loop is
an oval of similar punch marks. A nearly similar specimen has been
engraved by Wilde (Catal., Fig. 276), who also gives one of the same
general type, but with two plain broad beads, alternating with three
narrow ones, round the mouth (Catal., Fig. 277). It has a hexagonal
neck. A celt (4¼ inches) from Ballina, Co. Mayo, in the collection of
Mr. Robert Day, F.S.A., has an octagonal neck, and five grooved lines
round its circular mouth.
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