A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . o be frequently found in theThames, is also known from Scotland, smaller examples occur-ring in the north of France, but being no doubt derived fromthe English type. 38 DESCRIPTION OF CASES 8-10 Cases 8-10. Deposits of bronze in the soil or other hiding-place are gene-rally known as hoards,and have been divided into three mainclasses, viz:—(1) Personal hoards : personal property buried fortemijorary concealment, but never recovered by the originalowner. (2) Merchants hoards: a stock of implemen
A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . o be frequently found in theThames, is also known from Scotland, smaller examples occur-ring in the north of France, but being no doubt derived fromthe English type. 38 DESCRIPTION OF CASES 8-10 Cases 8-10. Deposits of bronze in the soil or other hiding-place are gene-rally known as hoards,and have been divided into three mainclasses, viz:—(1) Personal hoards : personal property buried fortemijorary concealment, but never recovered by the originalowner. (2) Merchants hoards: a stock of implements or weaponsready for use and probably carried from place to place by travel-ling dealers or by the manufacturers themselves. (3) Foundershoards: broken or disused implements and weapons collectedand packed together by travelling tinkers for remelting, as isshown by the frequent occurrence, in this class, of moulds forthe manufacture of celts, spear-heads, and other forms. Hoards are of special importance as showing within certainlimits what objects were contemporary, and Sir John Evans draws. Fig. 15.— , -?, several conclusions from the study of those found in this chief points are :— That flat celts and knife-daggers such as are known fromBritish baiTows occur very rarely in hoards. 2. Flanged celts and palstaves are occasionally found together,but palstaves are often found with socketed celts. 3. Tanged implements of any sort are rarely found withsocketed specimens. 4. Tores or twisted collars are more often associated withpalstaves than with socketed celts, and are mainly confined to ourwestern counties. 5. Metal moulds and rough lumps of copper are generallyassociated with socketed celts. It may be argued from the aljove that the hoards are as a classlater than the period of the Ijarrows, and that the socket was BRONZE HOARDS 39 recognised universally as an improvement on the tang for tlieattachment of the handle, tho
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