Several others were found in the hoard at West Halton,[434] Lincolnshire, already mentioned. Others were discovered in company with a looped palstave, some spear-heads, ferrules, fragments of swords, and a tanged knife, near Nottingham,[435] in 1860. Seven or eight such celts, and the half of a bronze mould in which to cast them, were found with a socketed knife, spear-heads, and numerous other objects, in the Heathery Burn Cave,[436] near Stanhope, Durham, of which further mention will subsequently be made. Many have also been found in Yorkshire and Northumberland.
The type is not confined to the Northern Counties, for specimens occurred in the great find at Carlton Rode,[437] near Attleborough, Norfolk. I have seen another, 4 inches long, which was found with many other socketed celts and other articles at Martlesham, Suffolk, in the hoard already mentioned (p. 113). I have one (3⅝ inches) from Llandysilio, Denbighshire. Another, with traces of the three ribs, was found at Pulborough,[438] Sussex. This specimen is in outline more like Fig. 130. A socketed celt of this kind (5 inches long), with three parallel ribs on the flat surface, was found near Launceston,[439] Cornwall. Some long celts of the same kind were found at Karn Brê, in the same county, as already mentioned.
Fig. 126.—Mynydd-y-Glas. ½
In some celts with the three ribs on their faces, found in Wales, the moulding at the top is large and heavy, and forms a sort of cornice round the celt, the upper surface of which is flat. That engraved as Fig. 126 was found at Mynydd-y-Glas, near Hensol, Glamorganshire, and is now in the British Museum. In the same collection is another of much the same character, but of ruder fabric, 4¾ inches long, with a square socket, found in 1849 with others similar, in making the South Wales Railway, in Great Wood,[440] St. Fagan’s, Glamorganshire. The loop is badly cast, being filled up with metal.
Canon Greenwell has a celt of this type (4 inches), found at Llandysilio, Denbighshire, with two others having three somewhat converging ribs (3¾ inches and 3¼ inches), a socketed knife, and part of a spear-head.
Two others (5⅛ inches and 4⅜ inches) were found with part of a looped palstave[441] and a waste piece from a casting, and lumps of metal, on Kenidjack Cliff, Cornwall. Another (4 inches) from Cornwall is in the British Museum. One from Sedgemoor, Somersetshire, is in the Taunton Museum.
The three-ribbed type occurs occasionally in France. Examples are in the Museums of Amiens, Toulouse, Clermont Ferrand, Poitiers, and other towns. Three vertical ribs are of common occurrence on celts from Hungary and Styria.
In some rare examples the three ribs converge as they go down the blade. One such is shown in Fig. 127. The original is in the possession of Sir A. A. Hood, Bart., and was found with twenty-seven other socketed celts, some of oval and some of square section, two palstaves, two gouges, two daggers, twelve spear-heads, and numerous fragments of celts and leaf-shaped swords, as well as rough metal and the refuse jets from castings. The whole lay together about two feet below the surface at Wick Park,[442] Stogursey, Somerset.
In other rare instances there is a transverse bead running across the blade below the three vertical ribs. The celt shown in Fig. 128 was found near Guildford, Surrey, and is in the collection of Mr. R. Fitch, F.S.A.