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 Fig. 383 is shown a variety (11½ inches) with a projecting fillet
running down to the rivet-holes as in Fig. 381, which, however, in
this case forms the termination of small beads running along the sides
of the central rib. There is also a beading running along the midrib.
The original was found, with another spear-head, plain, a socketed
celt, some bronze rings, and fragments of tin, at Achtertyre,[1203]
Morayshire. Mr. R. Day, F.S.A., has a nearly similar spear-head (5
inches), found in Dublin.
A more elongated form, with the projecting part of the socket
considerably shorter, is shown in Fig. 384, from a specimen found
in the North of Ireland. A spear-head (20 inches) of the same form
of outline, but with a slight ridge running the whole length of the
socket from its mouth to the point, was found at Ditton,[1204] Surrey.
It is now in the British Museum, having been presented by the Earl of
Lovelace.
Another (14⅝ inches) in the same collection, found in the River
Thames,[1205] near the mouth of the Wandle, retains a portion of the
original wood in its socket. It was found in company with a bronze
sword, a palstave, and a long pin (Fig. 454).
One of much the same form as the figure (11 inches) was found at
Teigngrace,[1206] Devon. It has a delicate bead running down each side
of the midrib, and continued as a square projection below the blade.
Canon Greenwell has a long spear-head (14½ inches) from Quy Fen, with
grooves running up the blade at the side of the socket. The ends of
the blade are truncated so as to leave projections on the sides of the
socket above the rivet-hole. These are slightly ornamented.
I have seen another spear-head (11½ inches) with the base of the blade
slightly truncated in a similar manner. It was found near Eastbourne.
This elongated form is of common occurrence in Denmark and Northern
Germany,[1207] the necks being usually ornamented by delicate
punch-marking or possibly engraving.
A broader variety, with the socket considerably enlarged in the part
extending below the blade, is shown in Fig. 385. The original was
found in company with other spear-heads like Fig. 382 from 5⅝ inches
to 10⅝ inches long, two socketed celts with three vertical lines on
the face like Fig. 125, and two somewhat conical plates with central
holes, near Newark, and is in the collection of Canon Greenwell, F.R.S.
A spear-head (6½ inches) not quite so broad in its proportions, said
to have been found in a tumulus, near Lewes,[1208] Sussex, is in
the British Museum, as is another (6½ inches) found near Bakewell,
Derbyshire.
A spear-head of the same general outline as Fig. 385, but with the
sides of the socket straighter, was found with others, as well as with
16 socketed celts, a knife, fragments of swords and of a quadrangular
tube (qy. a scabbard?) and a long ferrule, near Nottingham.[1209]
[Illustration: Fig. 385.—Newark. ½]
[Illustration: Fig. 386.—Reach Fen. ½]
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