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
One from Stanwick, Yorkshire (8 inches), is in the British Museum, as
is one (11 inches) from Bannockburn, Scotland. An Irish specimen (10
inches) is devoid of rivet-holes.
Another spear-head of nearly the same type, but of smaller dimensions,
is given in Fig. 382. It was found, with some other spear-heads (Fig.
410), socketed celts (Figs. 155 and 157), palstaves (Fig 83), and
a ferrule, to be subsequently mentioned, at Nettleham,[1182] near
Lincoln, in 1860. They are now in the British Museum.
Others of the same type have been found at Winmarleigh[1183] and
Cuerdale,[1184] Lancashire, at Wardlow,[1185] Derbyshire, Little
Wenlock,[1186] Shropshire (8 inches), near Windsor[1187] (7 inches),
at Bottisham,[1188] Cambridge, and in Herts.[1189]
I have one from the River Lea[1190] at St. Margaret’s, Herts, and
others from Reach Fen, Cambridge.
[Illustration: Fig. 383. Achtertyre. ½]
Others were in the Guilsfield hoard,[1191] and in that of
Pant-y-maen,[1192] or the Glancych hoard. One from the latter hoard
is about 11 inches long. Another, more like Fig. 386, about 4 inches.
With them were found fragments of swords, a scabbard tip, some rings
and ferrules. Others (9 inches and 5 inches) were found, with a
socketed celt and knife, a tanged chisel, and other objects, at Ty
Mawr,[1193] on Holyhead Mountain.
Five were found in the hoard near Stanhope,[1194] Durham, with
socketed celts, a gouge, &c.
Of Scottish specimens the following may be noticed: one from
Lanark[1195] (5¾ inches), which has been figured; two (7¾ inches)
rather long in the socket, found with a bronze sword and a long
pin on the Point of Sleat,[1196] Isle of Skye; one (6 inches) from
Balmaclellan,[1197] New Galloway. One (5⅛ inches) from Duddingston
Loch, Edinburgh, is in the British Museum.
Leaf-shaped spear-heads such as Fig. 382 are of frequent occurrence in
various parts of France. A number were found at Alise Ste. Reine[1198]
(Côte d’Or), several of them ornamented with rings round the sockets.
They also are found in the Lake-dwellings of Switzerland[1199] and
Savoy. Many of them have parallel rings round the mouth of the
socket by way of ornament. They also occur in Germany[1200] and
Denmark.[1201] One from Northern Germany, still containing a part of
its wooden shaft, has been engraved by Von Estorff.[1202]
Those from Italy and Greece have very frequently facets running along
the midrib which contains the socket.
[Illustration: Fig. 384. North of Ireland. ½]
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