Athletics and manly sport . No. 40. A^XIE^T BRONZE SHIELD.* * A very beautiful bronze shield, found in a bog forming apeninsula or island in Lough Gurr, in the county of Royal Irish Academy having purchased this beautifulshield from M. Lenihan, Esq., of Limerick, it is now in thenational museum. It is a flat disc two feet three and three-quarter inches in diameter. It has six concentric rings formedby about two hundred small hollow bosses about an inch indiameter; and in the centre a large somewhat flattened boss,six inches internal diameter, called by the French OmblUrcV Umbo, an
Athletics and manly sport . No. 40. A^XIE^T BRONZE SHIELD.* * A very beautiful bronze shield, found in a bog forming apeninsula or island in Lough Gurr, in the county of Royal Irish Academy having purchased this beautifulshield from M. Lenihan, Esq., of Limerick, it is now in thenational museum. It is a flat disc two feet three and three-quarter inches in diameter. It has six concentric rings formedby about two hundred small hollow bosses about an inch indiameter; and in the centre a large somewhat flattened boss,six inches internal diameter, called by the French OmblUrcV Umbo, and by the Germans the ScMldnabel. The rim is aninch and three-quarters in width. The handle is fastened HEROIC COMBAT IN ANCIENT IRELAND. 231. No. 41. ANCIENT BRONZE SHIELD. across the back of the central boss. On the back of the shield,in the third circle from the rim, are two bits of bronze soriveted that the heads of the rivets form two of the smallobverse bosses. These bits of bronze served to sling the shieldover the shoulders. [Figures 40 and 41 represent the face andback of this shield.] The central boss or umbilicus of someIrish shields must have been formed by a spike which couldbe thrust into the face of an enemy. This was, perhaps, theGllech cuach coicrindi or flesh mangling cu^-Gilech or cup-spear, which was on the speckled blow-dealing shield of Laeg-haire Baadach.^—0Currys Manners and Customs, 2o2 ETHICS OF BOXING AND 31ANLY SPORT. day or the thrusting of the seaond, by the hewmgof to-day. They fought from behind their longgreat shiekls, and both men were many timesand deeply wounded, w^ien the darkness they gave their weapons to the charioteersthey were mournful and silent; they did not em-brace ea
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