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
A looped palstave rather like Fig. 75 is said to have been found in a
barrow near St. Austell,[348] Cornwall, in 1791, but no details are
given.
Palstaves provided with a loop on either side are of rare occurrence
in the British Islands.
A specimen found in 1871 at Penvores,[349] near Mawgan-in-Meneage,
Cornwall, is engraved as Fig. 86. In character it closely resembles
that from Brassington, Fig. 76, the main difference consisting in
its second loop. This specimen, with another from Cornwall and two
from Ireland, was exhibited to the Society of Antiquaries in 1873,
and is now in the British Museum. In the same collection is another,
6½ inches long, somewhat lighter below the stop-ridge, and having
the central rib less fully developed on the blade. It was found in
Somersetshire in 1868, in making the Cheddar Valley line of railway.
Another found in 1842, near South Petherton,[350] in the same county,
is in the possession of Mr. Norris at that place.
[Illustration: Fig. 86.—Penvores. ½]
[Illustration: Fig. 87.—West Buckland. ½]
Another example, shown in Fig. 87 was found at West Buckland,[351]
Somersetshire, and is in the collection of Mr. W. A. Sanford. With
it were discovered a torque (Fig. 468,) and a bracelet, (Fig. 481,)
and also some charcoal and burnt bones, but there was no sign of any
tumulus. Irish specimens will be subsequently mentioned.
[Illustration: Fig. 88. Bryn Crûg. ½]
Another two-looped instrument of a different character was found at
Bryn Crûg,[352] near Carnarvon, in company with a tanged knife and a
pin with three holes through its flat head (Fig. 450). It is shown in
Fig. 88, copied on a reduced scale from the _Archæological Journal_.
It resembles a flanged celt except in having that part of the blade
which lies between the side loops raised to the level of the flanges.
In France these double-looped palstaves are of rare occurrence, but I
have seen one much like Fig. 86 which was found in the Department of
Haute Ariège, and is now in the Toulouse Museum. One from Tarbes[353]
was in the Exposition des Sciences Anthropologiques, at Paris in 1878.
Another was found at Langoiran (Gironde).
[Illustration: Fig. 89. Andalusia. ½]
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