diagram, without any scale attached, and the instrument is described as an axe blade with a cross limb, or as a "spiked axe." Whatever its character, the original of the figure is said to have been found with other bronze relics at Strachur, Argylesbire. An example of a chisel of elongated form is… … Fig. 199.— Ireland. Fig. 198.— Scotland. | In Ireland they are much more common. There are thirteen specimens in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy, as cata- logued by the late Sir William Wilde,* varying in length from 2 2 to 6j inches. Some of these Irish chisels, which approximate to flat…
Bronze age -- Great Britain · Bronze age -- Ireland · Great Britain -- Antiquities
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