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 another example from Belaghey, County Antrim, which is 6⅜
inches long, and much stouter in the tang and in the neck of the blade
than that here figured. It is only 1⅜ inches wide at the edge.
Among those in the museum at Dublin is one which is decorated with
knobs round the collar. Two others are figured in “Horæ Ferales.”[585]
In the British Museum is one (4⅝ inches) with a well-marked collar.
Another, with the square tang broken off, has a loop at the side of
the round part of the blade, which is 2¼ inches long. This curious
specimen was found near Burrisokane, county Tipperary.
Another chisel (4¾ inches) in the same collection has side-projections
only, like Fig. 195.
Another (3¼ inches), with a well-developed collar, is engraved in the
_Archæological Journal_.[586] The form shades off into that of the
flat celts having projections at the sides.
Others in the collection of Mr. Robert Day, F.S.A., resemble Fig. 196
(4½ inches) and Fig. 197 (6 inches). The latter was found at Kanturk,
Co. Cork.
Tanged chisels have been found, though not abundantly, in France. One
from Beauvais is in the museum at St. Germain.
The socketed form of chisel is by no means common in this country; but
some instruments, probably intended for use as chisels, have already
been described among the socketed celts not provided with loops. These
are all comparatively broad at the cutting edge; but there is another
variety, with a narrow end, formed much like the modern engineer’s
“crosscut chisel,” some specimens of which will be now described.
[Illustration: Fig. 200. Carlton Rode. ½]
That shown in Fig. 200 is from the great find of Carlton Rode,[587]
Norfolk (1844), from which several specimens, including a tanged chisel
(Fig. 192) and a socketed celt without loop (Fig. 160), have already
been described; and some other forms, such as gouges and hammers, have
yet to be mentioned. The edge is only 3/16ths of an inch in width, and
the tool seems well adapted for cutting mortises. The idea of a mortise
and tenon must be of very early date, as a mere stake driven into the
ground supplies it in a rudimentary form; and tools let into sockets,
or having sockets to receive handles, afford instances of connections
of the same kind. In our modern mortising chisels the cutting edge,
instead of being in the middle of the blade, so as to have a V-shaped
section, is usually at the side, and presents an outline like the upper
part of a K, V. I have not met with this bevelled edge among bronze
chisels.
On the side of this Carlton Rode chisel may be seen the mark of the
joint of the mould in which it was cast. The socket, as usual with
these tools, is circular.
A bronze chisel of the same form, 3¾ inches long, was found at
Romford,[588] Essex, in company with socketed celts, palstaves,
fragments of swords, a broken spear-head, and lumps of metal. It has
already been figured.
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