An archaelogical index to remains of antiquity of the Celtic, Romano-British, and Anglo-Saxon periods . oughout England and Ireland, and theChannel Islands and the Continent. Nos. 29, 31, 32,33,are of very comnion occurrence, but No. 30 is re-markable for the lings attached to it. Mr. Brittonpossesses an ancient mould for casting celts. 52 SECTION IX. have supposed them to be offensive weapons;others have contended that they are tools servmg the united purposes of an axe and a 242526 27) 28 29 30 31 32 33 J 34 35 I Spear heads, from Barrows at Selwood, etc., in North 36 ) „^., I
An archaelogical index to remains of antiquity of the Celtic, Romano-British, and Anglo-Saxon periods . oughout England and Ireland, and theChannel Islands and the Continent. Nos. 29, 31, 32,33,are of very comnion occurrence, but No. 30 is re-markable for the lings attached to it. Mr. Brittonpossesses an ancient mould for casting celts. 52 SECTION IX. have supposed them to be offensive weapons;others have contended that they are tools servmg the united purposes of an axe and a 242526 27) 28 29 30 31 32 33 J 34 35 I Spear heads, from Barrows at Selwood, etc., in North 36 ) „^., I 38. 39 The blade of a brass dagger found in of British Archaeological Association, 235. Plate DAGGEES, SWORDS, AND SPEAR HEADS. Daggers fitted in wooden or ivory handles aresometimes discovered in Celtic tumuli. Severalof these are given in our plate. They appear tobelong to a much earlier period than the bronze DAGGERS, SWORDS, AND SPEAR HEADS. 53 swords of the type of tlie two here represented,and which were found in the bed of the Thamesnear None of these British weapons agree with theaccounts of historians. The shield Xo. 49, aloneanswers to the description which Tacitus givesof the arms of the Britons. The short dagger-like objects, Nos. 40, 41, 42, 43, are the arms ofbarbarians, but the sword and spears, Nos. 44,45,48, are formidable offensive weapons, modelledafter, and doubtless casts in bronze* of, the ironarms of a more civilised people, and well fittedfor human slaughter; but tlie shield alone agreeswith the historians descrijjtion.^ The sword,large and blunt at the point {sine mucrone)^seems rather to have its representative in those ^ For the loan of this cut we are indebted to the council ofthe British ArchEeological Association. * In the Archffiologia, vol. xv. pi. xxxiv., is a representationf>f a stone mould for casting spear-heads. ? Ingentibusgladiiset brevibuscetris.—Vita Agricola-, § 36. 54 SECTIO
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