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 anvil of about the same size, but thinner, which was
found in the Seine at Paris. It also can be mounted two ways, but in
each position it presents a nearly flat but somewhat inclined face,
and there are no swages in the beaks, one of which is conical and the
other nearly rectangular.
M. Ernest Chantre has engraved two other specimens, somewhat differing
in form, but of much the same general character. They were found near
Chalon-sur-Saône and near Geneva.[650] The analysis of the metal of
one of them gives 16 parts of tin to 84 parts of copper.
Another bronze anvil is in the museum at Amiens, and a fifth, also
from France, is in the British Museum. This has a flat projecting
ledge at the top, and at right angles a slightly tapering beak. An
anvil of the same kind, but without the beak, was found with other
objects near Amiens, and is now in the museum of that town.
A small anvil without a beak, found at Auvernier,[651] in the Lake of
Neuchâtel, is in the collection of Dr. Gross. A square flat anvil,
somewhat dented on the face, formed part of the Bologna hoard.
In my own collection is what appears to have been a larger anvil of
bronze, which was found, with other instruments of the same metal, at
Macarsca, Dalmatia. In form it is not unlike an ordinary hammer-head
about 5 inches long; but the eye through it appears to be too small
for it ever to have served to receive a haft of the ordinary kind,
though it probably held a handle by which to steady the tool when in
use. One end is nearly square and but slightly convex; the other is
oblong and rounded the narrow way. Both ends are much worn. On one
face and one side are rounded notches or swages. This tool has been
cast in an open mould, as one face presents the rough surface of the
molten metal, which contains a large proportion of tin. The other face
and the sides are fairly smooth.
SAWS AND FILES.
While speaking of bronze tools, which up to the present time have
not been noticed in Britain, but which may probably be some day
discovered—if, indeed, they have not already been found—the saw must
not be forgotten.
A fragment of what has been regarded as a rudely formed saw of bronze
was indeed found, with a sword and several celts, at Mawgan,[652]
Cornwall, and is now in the Museum of the Society of Antiquaries. It
is 4 inches by ¾ inch, coarsely toothed, and the serrations appear to
have been cast. I am, however, rather doubtful whether it was really a
saw.
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