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
A gouge was found with four socketed celts and about 30 lbs. of
rough copper in an urn at Sittingbourne,[612] Kent. A plain gouge
formed part of the hoard found at Stanhope,[613] Durham. A remarkably
fine gouge, 4¼ inches long and nearly 1¼ inch wide at the edge, was
found, with spear-heads, socketed celts, part of a celt mould, and
lumps of metal, at Beddington,[614] Surrey. At Porkington,[615]
Shropshire, a gouge accompanied the tanged chisel lately mentioned.
In the hoard found at Guilsfield,[616] Montgomeryshire, there were
two gouges in company with looped palstaves, socketed celts, &c. In
my own collection are three socketed gouges, about 3½ inches long,
which form part of the hoard from Reach Fen, Cambridgeshire, in
which were socketed celts, socketed and tanged knives, and numerous
other objects. In some of the instances cited, as at Guilsfield and
Ebnall, the upper part of the socket is beaded instead of plain.
One of this kind from the Harty hoard already mentioned is shown in
Fig. 205. There were two such in the hoard, which comprised numerous
socketed celts and the moulds for them, and various tools of the
bronze-founder. There were also the two halves of a bronze mould for
such gouges which will subsequently be described. In the Museum of
the Cambridge Antiquarian Society is a gouge from Bottisham Lode (3
inches) with a slight shoulder about ½ inch from the top of the blade,
the upper part of the neck being larger than the lower. One of three
found in the Heathery Burn Cave (2¾ inches) is also shouldered. Of the
other two (3⅜ inches and 3¼ inches) one is very slightly shouldered.
They are in the collection of Canon Greenwell, F.R.S., as is also a
plain example (3¾ inches) from Scothorn, Lincolnshire.
In the British Museum are the unfinished castings for two gouges, one
2¾ inches long and fully ½ inch wide, and the other 3 inches long and
⅜ inch wide at the edge, which in both is but slightly hollowed. They
were found with a socketed celt (Fig. 146) near Blandford, Dorset. The
longer one is of very white and hard bronze.
[Illustration: Fig. 206. Undley. ½]
[Illustration: Fig. 207. Carlton Rode. ½]
[Illustration: Fig. 208. Tay. ½]
Two gouges, one 3½ inches and the other broader, but only 2 inches
long, found with various other objects at Hounslow; as well as one
from the Thames at Battersea (4 inches), are in the same collection.
Two gouges (3¼ inches and 5 inches) were found, with a hammer, a
spear-head, and a socketed celt with a loop on the face (Fig. 154),
near Whittlesea. The whole are in the museum at Wisbech.
Two from Derbyshire are in the Blackmore Museum at Salisbury.
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