A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . s formed in the runners of the mould and notremoved after casting, but ham-mered over to form a loop. Itis difScult to see how this couldliave been of any service, as thebutt was entirely covered by theprongs of the handle (cf. fig. 54).Other objects of interest are thesmall anvil (fig. 83), the cylinderwith a number of movable ringsalready referred to (p. 28). andthe socketed celt resembling thatfrom Beverley (fig. 65) but withthe loop on the face instead ofthe side (fig. 84). The largerarmlet
A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . s formed in the runners of the mould and notremoved after casting, but ham-mered over to form a loop. Itis difScult to see how this couldliave been of any service, as thebutt was entirely covered by theprongs of the handle (cf. fig. 54).Other objects of interest are thesmall anvil (fig. 83), the cylinderwith a number of movable ringsalready referred to (p. 28). andthe socketed celt resembling thatfrom Beverley (fig. 65) but withthe loop on the face instead ofthe side (fig. 84). The largerarmlet with spiral coils is morecommon in Hungaiy (Case G),and the dagger from La Guillo-tiere (fig. 85) is nearer than theThames specimen (fig. 48) to theoriginal terramara type as seenin Case J. A hollow terminal inthe form of a bird from Auvergneresembles one from Hungary(Case G), and, to judge from an analogous example found in Den-mark with remains of wood, was probably attached to the end ofa chariot-pole. Diminutive socketed celts, the use of which is notapparent, are also exhibited in Case Fig. 82.—Socketed celt, Ei-guuArmel, Quimper, Brittany. \ GREENWELL COLLECTION 89 Case F. On the left of the East side are relics from barrows in thenorthern counties of England, principally from the Greenwellcollection. The most interesting and important are the threesolid chalk drums (fig. 86), engraved all over with geometrical and
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