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 this case it will be seen that the blade tapers both ways from a
low central ridge. Others of these flat celts are in outline more like
Fig. 20. One such, in the museum of the Royal Irish Academy, is 12¼
inches long by 8½ inches broad, and weighs nearly 5 lbs. One in the
British Museum, which, unfortunately, is somewhat imperfect, must have
been of nearly the same size. The usual length of the celts like Fig.
28 is from 4 to 6 inches. One from Greenmount, Castle Bellingham, Co.
Louth, is engraved in the _Archæological Journal_.[239]
[Illustration: Fig. 30.—Tipperary. ½]
Occasionally the flat surface is ornamented. An example of this kind
(7½ inches) is given in Fig. 30, from a specimen found in the county
of Tipperary,[240] and now in the British Museum. The surface has the
patterns punched in, and the angles between the faces and the sides
are slightly serrated. Some few Irish celts are slightly fluted on the
face, like the English specimen, Fig. 6.
[Illustration: Fig. 31.—Ireland. ½]
Another ornamented celt of this class, from my own collection, is
shown in Fig. 31. On this the roughly worked pattern has been produced
by means of a long blunt punch, or possibly by the pane or narrow end
of a hammer; but it is far more probable that the former tool was used
than the latter. The two faces are nearly alike, and the sides have
been hammered so as to produce a central ridge along them.
A large and highly ornamented flat celt in the collection of Canon
Greenwell, F.R.S., is shown in Fig. 32. The ornamentation on each
face is the same, and the sides have been hammered so as to produce a
succession of flat lozenges upon them. It was found near Connor, Co.
Antrim, with two others of nearly the same size, one of which was
scraped by the finder. The other is ornamented with a cross-hatched
border along the margins, and three narrow bands across the blade,
one cross-hatched, one of triangles alternately hatched and plain,
and one with vertical lines. Parallel with the cutting edge, which,
however, has been broken off in old times, is a curved band of
alternate triangles, like that across the centre of the blade. Much
of the surface is grained by vertical indentations, and the sides are
ornamented like those of Fig. 4.
[Illustration: Fig. 32.—Connor. ½]
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