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 small palstave, with two vertical grooves in the blade, is shown in
Fig. 99.
Another form of winged celt, with a low stop-ridge and with a vertical
rib passing through an inverted chevron on the blade, is shown in Fig.
100. The original is in the collection of Mr. Robert Day, F.S.A.
The same style of ornament occurs on palstaves of other forms.[375]
In some instances, there is in the centre of the stop-ridge a kind of
bracket on the blade, and the side wings are hammered over so as to
form an imperfect socket. A small example of the kind is shown in Fig.
101. I have a larger specimen (4½ inches) from Trillick, Co. Tyrone.
Vallancey[376] engraves a palstave of this type.
Others with flat blades and no brackets have the side flanges hammered
over in the same manner.
[Illustration: Fig. 99.—Ireland. ½]
[Illustration: Fig. 100.—Ireland. ½]
[Illustration: Fig. 101.—Ireland. ½]
A fine example, in which the conical bracket dies into the stop-ridge
and side flanges, is in the British Museum.
Palstaves with a loop at the side are not of such frequent occurrence
in Ireland as those without. Wilde[377] has engraved a specimen (6⅜
inches) like Fig. 77 as well as that[378] which I have here shown on a
larger scale as Fig. 102. This latter has the wings well hammered over
at the base, so as to form a kind of socket on each side of the blade.
It differs, however, from the English and foreign specimens like Fig.
85 in having a well-marked shoulder or stop on the blade between the
wings.
[Illustration: Fig. 102.—Ireland. ½]
[Illustration: Fig. 103.—Ireland. ½]
[Illustration: Fig. 104.—Ireland. ½]
Palstaves of nearly the same character, but without the loop, have
already been mentioned as found both in Ireland and Scotland. Others,
with loops like Fig. 103, have a bracket on the blade between the
flanges.
A remarkable form with slight side flanges and no stop-ridge, from
the Dublin Museum, is shown in Fig. 104. It is No. 630 in Wilde’s
Catalogue. The sides have deep diagonal notches upon them and the
upper part of each face is chequered, perhaps in order to assist in
steadying the blade in its handle.
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