GED CELTS AND PALSTAVES. stand at right angles to it. Had they been hammered over to form semicircular receptacles on each side of the blade the instrument would have been more properly described as a palstave. It was found with others near Reeth, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, and is in the… … Fig. 56.— Eeeth. Fig. 57.— Dorchester. Fig. 57 shows a winged celt with a broad low stop-ridge. The part of the blade above this is about £ inch thinner than the part below, so that though transitional in character it belongs to one of the classes to which I would wish to restrict the term…
Bronze age -- Great Britain · Bronze age -- Ireland · Great Britain -- Antiquities
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