Two found with many others in the New Forest[414] (3 and 5 inches long) are engraved in the Archæologia. The larger has a rib 3 inches long running down the face and terminating in an annulet.
Others of the same type have been found at Hollingbury Hill,[415] and near the church at Brighton,[416] Sussex.
Among the celts found at Karn Brê, Cornwall, in 1744, were some of this character, but expanding more at the cutting edge. Others were more like Fig. 124, though longer in proportion. With them are said to have been found several Roman coins, some as late as the time of Constantius Chlorus. Others (5 inches long) seem to have formed part of the hoard found at Mawgan,[417] Cornwall, in which there was also a fine rapier. Another, from Bath,[418] is in the Duke of Northumberland’s museum at Alnwick. Another has been cited from Cornwall.[419]
Celts of this form are of rare occurrence in the North of England, but one, said to have been disinterred with Roman remains at Chester-le-Street,[420] Durham, is in the Museum of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
| Fig. 121. Cambridge Fens. ½ | Fig. 122. High Roding. ½ |
Celts like Fig. 120 are of very frequent occurrence in Northern France; large hoards, consisting almost entirely of this type, have been found. A deposit of sixty was discovered near Lamballe[421] (Côtes du Nord), and one of more than two hundred at Moussaye, near Plénée-Jugon, in the same department. Most of the celts in both these hoards had never been used, and in a large number the core of burnt clay was still in the socket. A hoard of about fifty is said to have been found near Bevay,[422] Belgium.
Plain socketed celts nearly square at the mouth have occasionally been found in Germany. One from Pomerania[423] is much like Fig. 120 in outline.
The form of narrow celt, which I regard as of Gaulish derivation, is not nearly so elegant as that of a more purely English type of which an example is shown in Fig. 121. The original was found in the Cambridge Fens, and is in my own collection. Within the socket on the centre of each side is a raised narrow rib running down 2 inches from the mouth, or to within ¾ inch of the bottom of the socket.
The type is rare; but a specimen (5 inches) of nearly the same form as the figure was found, with palstaves, sickles, &c., near Taunton, Somerset.[424] There is also a resemblance to the Barrington celt, Fig. 148.