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Title: A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of British and mediæval antiquities and ethnology Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929
Subjects: Bronze age
Publisher: (London) : Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Fig. 4.—Flesh-hook, Dunaverney bog, Co. Antrim. J cylinders forming parts of larger instruments. The horns werecast in one piece, the spikes being, perhaps, survivals of originalrivet-heads. Of the so-called bells (plate ii,2), some are pear-shaped, while others are almost spherical, all containing looseclappers of metal or stone, but so constructed that little or no
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Plate II. Iakt i>f Hoaki>, Donvris, Kisns Co.fCa^^,s I, 2, .tl-r p. 28.1 IRELAND 29 sound can be obtained from them. Socketed knives and spear-heads are also included in the find, as well as a curious hammer-head (fig. 6); and many of the objects were contained in a bronzecauldron of 21 in. diameter, formed of thin plates riveted together,similar to that exhibited in the lower part of Case 14. Thegolden tint of many of the specimens may be due to the peatynature of the soil, but very closely resembles the condition ofsome bronze implements found in the Thames (Case A). Thecomposition of the metal varies, but all the pieces have a con-siderable proportion of tin, unlike the common flat celt of Ireland.One of the Dowris celts contains 85-23 per cent, of copper, 13-11

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