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Identifier: cu31924029929233 (find matches)
Title: A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of British and mediæval antiquities and ethnology Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929
Subjects: Bronze age
Publisher: (London) : Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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Fii.. il. — Spear-headwith p;old studs, Tliamesat T.aplow. 70 BESCKIPTION OB^ CASE A pommel on one of tlie swords occurs more thanScotland, but is rare else^^here, though sphericalpommels of bone, &e., must liave Ijeen fairly com-mon. A similar pin was found ^\•ith swords ofthis and other kinds at Edinbui-gli. A find fromMerionethshire contained types also found in theThames, and the resemblance of a tanged chiselfrom Ty Mawr and a cylindrical chape from Mont-gomeryshire to specimens on the other side of theCase should be noticed. The socketed knife fromGlamorganshire recalls several Irish specimens inCase C, and the form is common in Fiance. once HI Fk;. ■t(;.—Daggor-hlade.Thames atKichiuuml. ?
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Fi,.. 47.—Dagger- Fici. 48. —(Jr- Fio. 41).— blade. Tliaines at nainented dag- t^iii, ThamesThames Dittou. 1 ger, Thames. ; near mnutli of Wandle. J METALLUKGY 71 To the ri(jM is a collection of celts purchased from a marine-store dealer long ago, but there is no record of localities. A seriesfrom the Thames includes an ornamented fiat celt of Irish type,palstaves and socketed celts of varioiis sizes. Special mentionshould be made ofone with different de-signs on the two facesfrom Kingston (fig.511. Case B. It was formerly acommon impressionthat the bronze of pre-Koman times cameto this country fromabroad, as was vm-doubtedly the case inScandinavia ; but theexistence of moulds inthis country, togetherwith an ample supplyof the constituentmetals, shows thatbronze was from thefirst manufactured onthe spot. It is infact likely that foreigntraders in metal werefirst attracted to Corn-■i\-all and other partsby the knowledge thatIjionze was already inuse among the na-tives, who had

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