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 nearly similar tool, also from the Cambridge Fens, but
without any barbs. In a third, from the neighbourhood of Dorchester,
Oxon, there are neither barbs at the sides nor any ornament below the
stop-ridge. I have seen another of the same character (4½ inches)
which was found at Wolsonbury, Sussex, and is in the collection of
Mrs. Dickinson. Another (4¾ inches), found in the Thames at Kingston,
Surrey, is in the Museum of the Society of Antiquaries. I have seen
another (6⅝ inches), found at Sutton, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, in
which there was a tongue-shaped groove below the stop-ridge, like that
on the socketed celt, Fig. 148, but single instead of double.
The Rev. James Beck, F.S.A.,[281] has a palstave of this kind 6 inches
long and 1¼ inch wide at the edge, with a projecting rib below the
stop-ridge and also in the recess above. It was found at Westburton
Hill, near Bignor, Sussex. There are depressions on each side of the
rib below the stop, forming an ornament like that on Fig. 81.
A narrow palstave, apparently of the same character, found at
Windsor,[282] is engraved by Stukeley.
A very beautiful narrow palstave, found in the Thames, and now in the
collection of General A. Pitt Rivers, F.R.S., is shown in Fig. 68. As
will be seen, the angles are ornamented with a kind of milling, and
the sides are also decorated with zigzag and chevron patterns.
In Fig. 69 is shown an unfinished casting for a palstave of
unusually small size, which formed part of the great hoard found at
Stibbard,[283] Norfolk. About seventy such castings were found, and
about ten castings for spear-heads (see Fig. 407).
[Illustration: Fig. 70. Irthington. ½]
The form of palstave with the side wings or flanges hammered over so
as to form a kind of semicircular socket on either side of the blade,
is of rare occurrence in Britain, and is usually provided with a loop.
In Canon Greenwell’s collection is one (7 inches) without any ornament
below the square stop-ridge, with the side wings slightly hammered
over. It was found with others (with and without loops), together with
a mould for palstaves (Fig. 527), at Hotham Carr, Yorkshire, E. R.
In a hoard of about sixty bronze objects found at Westow,[284] about
twelve miles from York on the Scarborough Road, was one palstave of
this kind, like Fig. 85, but without a loop, and about thirty socketed
celts, six gouges, a socketed chisel, two tanged chisels, and numerous
fragments of metal, including some jets or runners broken off castings.
The type is of common occurrence in Austria, South Germany, and the
South of France.
Palstaves of the adze form, or having the blade at right angles to
the septum between the flanges, are but very seldom found in Britain.
A small specimen from the collection of Canon Greenwell, F.R.S., is
shown in Fig. 70. It was found at Irthington, Cumberland.
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