— Fig. 127.—Stogursey. ½ – Fig. 128.—Guildford. ½ – Fig. 129.—Frettenham. ½
On other celts the vertical ribs are more or less than three in number. A specimen with four ribs, also in Mr. Fitch’s collection, is engraved as Fig. 129. It was found at Frettenham, Norfolk.
Others with four ribs occurred in the find at West Halton,[443] Lincolnshire, already mentioned. One was also found at the Castle Hill,[444] Worcester, and another at Broust in Andreas,[445] Isle of Man. Examples with three and four ribs from Kirk-patrick and Kirk-bride, Isle of Man, are in the collection of Mr. J. R. Wallace of Distington, Whitehaven.
One (4⅛ inches) with five ribs was found in the hoard at Martlesham, Suffolk, also already mentioned.
One (3¾ inches) with six small vertical ribs on the faces, found at Downton, near Salisbury, is in the Blackmore Museum. In a celt with square socket from the Carlton Rode find there are traces of six ribs on one of the faces only. This specimen, in my own collection, is in good condition, and the probability is in favour of this almost complete obliteration of the pattern being due to a succession of moulds having been formed, each rather more indistinct than the one before it, in which the model that served for the mould was cast.
Celts closely resembling Fig. 129 are in the museums at Nantes and Narbonne.[446]
As an instance of a celt having only two of these vertical ribs upon it, I may mention a large one in my own collection (4¾ inches) found in the Isle of Portland. The mouth of the socket is oval, but the external faces are flat, the sides being rounded. The ribs run about 2½ inches down the faces, but the metal is too much oxidised to see whether they end in pellets or no.
——— Fig. 130.—Ely. ½ ——————— Fig. 131.—Caston. ½