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
In the hoard found at Westow, Yorkshire, already mentioned, were two
or three socketed chisels. One of them, 2½ inches long, is engraved in
the _Archæological Journal_.[589] That which I have here engraved as
Fig. 201 is probably the same specimen. It is now in the collection
of Canon Greenwell, F.R.S. Tanged chisels, gouges, and socketed celts
were found at the same time.
[Illustration: Fig. 201. Westow. ½]
[Illustration: Fig. 202. Heathery Burn. ½]
In the same collection is a somewhat smaller chisel, the socket of
which is square instead of circular. This was found in the Heathery
Burn Cave, Durham, together with a number of objects, belonging to
the Bronze Period, of which further mention will be made hereafter.
Another, found at Roseberry Topping, Yorkshire, is now in the Bateman
Collection, at Sheffield. A small narrow-edged chisel was found in a
hoard at Meldreth, Cambridgeshire.
I am not aware of any socketed chisels of the narrow form having been
found in Scotland.
In Ireland they are rare, but in the collection of Mr. R. Day, F.S.A.,
are a few specimens of undoubtedly chisel-like character. The broad
celt-like form has been described in a previous chapter.
In France they are also far from common. There are, however, two in
the museum at Tours, found at the Chatellier d’Amboise. There is
also one in the museum at Narbonne.[590] They have been found in
Savoy,[591] Doubs,[592] and Jura.[593]
Several have been found in the Lake-dwellings of Switzerland.[594]
One with a treble moulding round the mouth and a polygonal neck from
Mœrigen[595] exhibits much taste in its manufacture.
A number of chisels both of the tanged and the socketed forms were
present in the great hoard of bronze objects discovered at Bologna.
Socketed examples from Italy are in the museum at Copenhagen,[596] and
in the British Museum.
I have some from Macarsca, Dalmatia, of which the sockets have been
formed by hammering out the metal and turning it over, instead of
being produced as usual, by means of a core in the casting.
Socketed chisels from Emmen and Deurne, Holland, are in the
museum[597] at Leyden.
From North Germany I may cite one (6⅛ inches) from Schlieben,[598]
which is in the Berlin Museum.
Others are engraved by Lindenschmit,[599] Schreiber,[600] and
Lisch.[601]
One from Kempten, Bavaria, is in the Sigmaringen Collection.[602]
[Illustration: Fig. 203. Carlton Rode. ½]
GOUGES.
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