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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2012
In Sir William Wilde's Catalogue of Bronze Antiquities is described and illustrated under the heading of chariot furniture an iron-backed bronze disc, 3¾ in. in diameter, coated with white metal, projecting from which is a bronze stud in the form of a dog's head, 1½ in. long, with a human head engraved on its muzzle. The stud is threaded by a bronze chain made up of two rings and double loops (fig. 1, 1). Wilde considered this object was intended for the attachment of a trace. It was found when making a railway cutting near Navan Station adjoining the River Boyne in July 1848, associated with a quantity of human remains; the skull of a horse; a number of antiquities including a bronze bridle-bit, and harness-plate; iron rings plated with bronze; some small bronze buttons; and seven ornamented gilt-bronze plaques.
page 6 note 1 1861, p. 611.
page 6 note 2 Op. cit., pp. 573, 574.
page 8 note 1 Three of Wilde's illustrations weie refigured with a drawing of the horse's bit in the Royal Irish Academy Celtic Christian Guide, 1910.
page 8 note 2 Coffey, , Royal Irish Academy Celtic Christian Guide, pl. iv, 1.Google Scholar
page 9 note 1 Smith, , Archaeologia, lxv, p. 243.Google Scholar
page 9 note 2 Antiquaries Journal, 1, pl. v.Google Scholar
page 9 note 3 Altgermanische Tierornamentik, pp. 342, 343.
page 9 note 4 Norske Oldsager, figs. 618–27, see also pp. 32 and 76.
page note 5 Two bronze-gilt mountings of this type found in Perthshire are illustrated in the Catalogue of the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland, 1892, p. 201.
page 10 note 1 See Windisch, , Táin Bó Cúalnge, 1905, introduction, pp. xii–xv.Google Scholar
page 10 note 2 Muiredach, p. 69.
page 10 note 3 Journal Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, xxxvii, fig. on p. 294, description on p. 292.Google ScholarSee also Petrie, , Christian Inscriptions, i, pl. xxxiiiGoogle Scholar.
page 12 note 1 Royal Irish Academy Celtic Christian Guide, 1910, p. 71.
page 12 note 2 Smith, , Archaeologia, lxv, pp. 249, 250.Google Scholar
page 12 note 3 Proc. Royal Irish Academy, Coffey, and Armstrong, , xxviii, sec. C, p. 119.Google Scholar
page 12 note 4 See Altgermanische Tierornamentik, pp. 343, 344, and 357.
