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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2012
Among the collections of the Rev. C. H. Drinkwater, who died in 1923 after holding the living of St. George's, Shrewsbury, since 1872, were two looped palstaves and a trunnion celt (fig. 1), labelled as ‘3 Primitive Weapons found in the clay (15 ft.) in a brickfield, Hanwood Road, May 1900’. These were all in rather a rough condition, the surfaces being much chipped and in parts worn down to a grey-brown core with purple stains; they are encrusted with powdery blue-green metal, covered with a fairly glossy yellow-brown patina, of which considerable portions remain with traces of soil adhering. The chisel is in two pieces, broken about 10 mm. above the lugs; it is 156 mm. long, 24 mm. wide at the cutting edge and 35 mm. across the trunnions, with an average thickness of 8 mm.: unlike the specimen from Broxton and the two Welsh examples figured and described by Mr. Hemp, the ends do not seem to have been sharpened to a fine edge (though possibly the bluntness of the three implements under consideration may be due in part to the disintegrating effect of the soil on the metal): the section is roughly oblong, and the trunnions are squarish with rounded angles: the weight is 4⅜ oz. This implement is so far unique in Shropshire, but small broad-edged tanged chisels have been found, one at Brogyntyn, near Oswestry, with a leaf-shaped sword (type G) and a gouge, another (broken) in the late Broadward Hoard, from the extreme south of the county on the Herefordshire border.
page 409 note 1 Now in the possession of Mr. F. Drinkwater, M.R.C.V.S., of West Kirby, who kindly sent them for my inspection.
page 409 note 2 Hemp, W. J., ‘The Trunnion Celt in Britain’, Ant. Journ. v, 51.Google Scholar
page 410 note 1 In the possession of Lord Harlech, Brogyntyn (formerly called ‘Porkington’). Evans, , Anc. Br. Imps., p. 168Google Scholar; Archaeol. Journ., vii, 195.
page 410 note 2 See Peake, H. J. E., F.S.A., The Bronze Age and the Celtic World (1922), p. 91 and pl. ix.Google Scholar
page 410 note 3 In the Museum, British. Arch. Camb., iii (4), 338–55Google Scholar, etc.; Evans, , op. cit., p. 168Google Scholar.
page 413 note 1 Fortunately, an outline sketch of it was preserved by Mr. R. Lloyd Kenyon, who kindly gave it to me.
page 413 note 2 Given to Shrewsbury Museum by the late Mr. R. E. Clarke in 1893.
page 414 note 1 Evans, , Anc. Br. Imps. (1881), pp. 91, 169, 331, 464.Google Scholar