Fig. 209.—Ireland. ½
Socketed gouges are occasionally found in France. One, 4¼ inches long, with two mouldings round the top, ornamented with faint diagonal lines, was found with socketed celts and other implements in the Commune de Pont-point[624] (Oise), near the river Oise, and is in the Hotel Cluny, Paris. Others from the Hautes Alpes[625] and from the Fonderie de Larnaud have been figured in Mr. Ernest Chantre’s magnificent Album.
There are three with moulded tops, from the hoard of Notre Dame d’Or, in the Poitiers Museum.
A fine gouge (about 5½ inches) with a moulded top is in the museum at Clermont Ferrand (Puy de Dôme). A very fine French gouge of this character is in the British Museum.
I have a specimen much like Fig. 208 found in the Seine at Paris. Others were in the hoard at Dreuil, near Amiens, and in a second hoard also found near that town.
Large gouges with moulded tops, from the Stations of Auvernier,[626] in the Lake of Neuchâtel, and Mœrigen, in the Lake of Bienne, are in Dr. Victor Gross’s collection.
There was at least one socketed gouge in the great Bologna hoard.
In Germany they are very rare, but one from the museum at Sigmaringen, with a somewhat decorated socket, is engraved by Lindenschmit. It was found at Kempten, Bavaria.[627] Others, from Düren and Deurne, North Brabant, Holland, are in the museum at Leyden.