The Lake Dwellings of Ireland: Or ancient lacustrine habitations of Erin, commonly called crannogs.Wood-Martin, W. G. (William Gregory)
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The Lake Dwellings of Ireland: Or ancient lacustrine habitations of Erin, commonly called crannogs.
Wood-Martin, W. G. (William Gregory)
Lake-dwellers and lake-dwellings -- Ireland
The following objects are all drawn one-half size:--9. A knife, the
only specimen met with at Ballykinler crannog, having a handle. The
haft is of goat’s horn, and the blade like a penknife of large size;
it does not seem applicable to any ordinary domestic purpose, but it
may have been used for bleeding or operating on animals. 10. A wooden
instrument--of which two were found--made of soft, long-grained wood
of the pine kind; they might have been used for coarse knitting. 11.
An instrument of similar wood, use unknown. 12. There were several
like No. 12, formed of soft wood; they might have served as fastenings
for mantle or hair. 13. An instrument of bone, neatly made and
polished, which might have been used as a pin. 14. A pin, made of a
close-grained, hard, white wood, probably holly; several of these were
brought to light. 15. An article of iron, use unknown. 16. A pin of
iron; several of these were found. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, are pins
of bronze. There were a great number resembling No. 17, also several of
No. 19. 24. A large button made of bronze; the eyes are not fastened
in but cast. 25. A crucible, seemingly of foreign manufacture, and
unused; but several were met with greatly calcined. 26, 27, 28, seem
to be fastenings for leather or other garments; they are of very thin
bronze. 29 is a comb made of bone and riveted with iron (found at
Ballykinler crannog).
Plate XXXIV., 1, is a pointed and socketed iron instrument from
Ballymena. 2, drawn about half-size, is evidently a lamp of late, or
perhaps mediæval form, composed of iron, and the workmanship good; it
had an upright handle pierced by an oblong hole, with another hole in
a projection at end of handle. A gentleman saw a lamp of this class
in use near Carrickfergus in the year 1840, as also in the islands
off the coast of Ulster. 3 is a canoe paddle made of oak, and about
3 feet in length; 4 is of stone, and was found in a crannog in the
county Down; 5 is a “spindle-whorl” (so called) made of jet, and
having indentations on it for a thong or string; 6 is a flint knife
(full size); the form is rather unusual, flint knives being generally
straight; 7 is a full-size representation of the smallest of two bronze
knives; the other differs from it in being 1 inch longer, and the shape
not so curved; it should however be observed, that these two articles
are supposed by some authorities to be modern forgeries. 8 is a bronze
instrument about 6 inches long, and very sharp at the point; the metal
and workmanship being similar to the knives, it therefore may also be
spurious. 9. A lozenge-shaped “spindle-whorl” of jet. This and the
three preceding are said to have come from Lough Guile. 10 is a stone,
natural size, perforated with two holes crossing at right angles, and
at each end a hole going a short way in. It is suggested that it may
have been the axis of a small wheel, “the arms being inserted through
the holes in the body of the stone, while it worked on two projections
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