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The ancient bronze implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain and Ireland (1881)

Evans, John, Sir, 1823-1908 · London, Longmans, Green & Co. · leaf 457

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in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy,*- the half of a mould of this kind made of mica slate, and much worn by age and exposure, apparently intended for a ribbed socketed celt. It has dowel-holes on the face of the slab. The mould, or more properly half of a mould, for a tanged knife, with a… … Fig. 51S). — Brougiishane. £ !• ig. 51H.— Ballymoney. if to fit another half mould. In this other half there was probably little more than grooves for the central rib and tang, as the mould at the edge of the knife would produce a casting fully fa inch thick, which Mould require a good deal of…

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