Fig. 493.—Reach Fen. 1/1 — Fig. 494.—Reach Fen. 1/1 — Fig. 495.—Broadward. 1/1
An object like Fig. 493 was found with socketed celts, gouges, and hammers at Roseberry Topping,[1547] Yorkshire, in 1826. With them was a flat quadrangular whetstone(?) and fragments of a flat plate of bronze, the ends hollowed and with crescent-shaped openings or lunettes in them, and with staples for attachment at the corners. There are three rivet-holes on the convex side of the lunettes.
Another object of the same kind was found with a socketed celt, a hollow ring, gouge, &c., at Melbourne,[1548] Cambridge. There were two of these looped tubes found with spear-heads, socketed celts, broken swords, &c., near La Pierre du Villain,[1549] Longy, Alderney.
In the great hoard of bronze spear-heads, &c., found at Broadward,[1550] Shropshire, was a short object of this kind about 1½ inch long, with the loop as large in diameter as the tube and extending the whole length, so as to give it the form of the letter D. The orifice of the loop is only ½ inch long. This specimen is shown in Fig. 495. Another seems to have been found at the same time.
Fig. 496.—Trillick. ½
A fragment of another was in the collection of the late Lord Braybrooke.
An example, like Fig. 493, but somewhat broken, was in the deposit of Notre-Dame d’Or, now in the Poitiers Museum.
Another (2¾ inches), almost identical with Fig. 493, was found in a hoard with other objects near Amiens, and is now in the museum of that town.
Another of much the same kind was found at La Parnelle, Manche.[1551]