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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 79

An illustration from The ancient bronze implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain and Ireland, 1881, leaf 79 — 55 CASTINGS FOR FLANGED CELTS. The only instance known to me in which the rough castings destined to be wrought into this form of celt have been found in Britain is one recorded in the Archceologia Ca/rnhn nsis * by the Eev. E. L. Barnwell. At the meeting of the Cambrian Archaeo- logical… … Fig. IS.— Rhosnesney. \ over with tin, but this deposit of tin upon the surface may, I think, be due to some chemical action which has gone on since the bronze was buried in the ground, and may not have been intentionally produced. A casting for a longer flanged celt found at Vienne (Isere) has…

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