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
[255] In the crannogs of Cloonfinlough (2) there were found several
bronze spear-heads; pins of great variety of form; a bowl hammered out
of the solid (_ante_, p. 84); a fragment of another (_ante_, plate
XVII., No. 3); two vessels composed of small pieces curiously rivetted
together; a brooch of handsome workmanship (_ante_, p. 117); numerous
bone pins and implements; combs of great artistic merit (_ante_, p.
113); discs and deer’s horns; knives, sickles, hatchets, swords,
and spear-heads of iron; an implement made of sheet iron rivetted
together, having in the centre a circular ornament with a cross,
that evidently once had borne an arabesque pattern; many diminutive
frying-pans; small whetstones; single and double bronze rings; a
coin of the Emperor Hadrian; a Bulla of Pope Paul V.; several silver
coins of the Edwards--one so late as James II.; also a silver coin,
unfigured, it is stated, in any collection. From the same locality the
following articles, purchased from Mrs. E. Devenish, Clonfinla House,
Strokestown, are now in the British Museum:--A bronze dagger and brooch
(_ante_, plate XXXV., Nos. 1 and 2); a plain brooch pin, 5¾ inches in
length; fourteen bronze pins of varying size and shape; a cruciform
object for attachment, diameter, 1⅞ inches; a harp pin, quatre-foil
at one end, round at the other, which is pierced with a hole for the
string, length, 2¾ inches; an iron bill-hook, penannular socket, one
rivet-hole; a double axe (plate XXXV., No. 6); a spear-head much
corroded, no rivet-hole, length, 7⅝ inches; an arrow-head (plate XXXV.,
No. 4); a knife with long handle, all of iron, length, 7¼ inches; a
gouge and chisel combined, length, 9 inches; a gouge, 7⅛ inches; a
pair of shears, length, 7¼ inches; a piece of iron with remains of
loop handle, length, 4½ inches; a circular pan with straight handles,
remains of a loop at the end, length, 7 inches; diameter, 3½ inches;
a key, openwork handle, length, 2⅛ inches; a stone chessman (_ante_,
p. 132); a sharpener, grey in colour, square in section, decreasing
to each end, length, 4¾ inches; a flat bead of dark-grey shale,
diameter, ½ inch; a bone scoop resembling No. 8, on plate VI., and
having two rivet-holes at butt, ornamented with group of four dots,
length, 5⅞ inches; a curved pin of bone, with flattened head, length,
4⅜ inches; a second pin about half that size; two needles of bone,
varying in length from 3⅝ to 2⅞ inches; a ring of stag’s horn (plate
XXXV., No. 5); draughtsmen of stag’s horn (p. 131, figs. 176, 177); a
wooden peg, roughly cut, length, 2½ inches; a bucket stave, with marks
of two bands on outside surface, and furrow for bottom on inside,
length, 7⅝ inches; a single-piece leather shoe (plate XXXV., No. 7);
a silver Scottish 20 shilling piece, _obv., crowned head of king_, to
left in field XX--legend, CAR·D·G·MAG·BR·FR·ET·HIB·REX.--_R. crowned
thistle_--legend, IVST·THRONVM·FIRMAT.
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