Drawings Bronze Age weapons
Object number
LDSAL2020.38.312
Artist/Designer/Maker
Utting, Robert Brooke - Engraver
Production date
1861
Material
paper
ink
printer's ink
ink
printer's ink
Technique
Drawing
Engraving
Woodcut
Printing
Letterpress Printing
Engraving
Woodcut
Printing
Letterpress Printing
Dimensions
Height: 162mm
Width: 133mm
Width: 133mm
Inscriptions
Inscription content
A remarkable bronze celt, elaborately striated with hammered strokes; the sides sharply ridged, and ornamented with diagonal grooves, produced apparently by the hammer. There is a very slight central ridge. Celts thus ornamented with hammered or engraved work, although rare in England, occur in the southern counties; the most elaborate specimen is that here figured, found near Lewes...
Bronze arrow, or javelin-head, of a rare type, found near Clonmel, with a socket for the shaft and a loop at each side...
Fac-simile of a bronze spear-head of unusual size and rare type, found in Morayshire...
Bronze arrow, or javelin-head, of a rare type, found near Clonmel, with a socket for the shaft and a loop at each side...
Fac-simile of a bronze spear-head of unusual size and rare type, found in Morayshire...
Inscription content
UTTING SC
Inscription content
Arch. Inst. XVIII. p. 167
References
Reference (free text)
'Proceedings at Meetings of the Archaeological Institute', Archaeological Journal 18 (1861): 166-7.
Illustrations (Engravings), p. 167.
Reference (free text)
George V Dunoyer, 'Remarks on the Classification of Bronze Arrow Heads', Archaeological Journal 7 (1850): 281-3.
Illustration (Engraving), p. 282.
The item is a cutting from Archaeological Journal (see Bibliography).
