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IX.—Notes on a Sword found in Catterdale, Yorkshire, exhibited by Lord Wharncliffe, and on other Examples of the same kind

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The sword which Lord Wharncliffe has been good enough to exhibit to the Society was found on the moors of Catterdale, at the head of Wensleydale, Yorkshire, on the borders of Westmoreland, but I am not aware whether any circumstances connected with its discovery have been recorded beyond that it lay about one foot under ground.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1880

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page 251 note a This communication has since been amplified and brought down to our present state of knowledge.

page 251 note b A sword-handle of the same material and shape, found at Weisenau, near Mayence, is engraved in Lindenschmit, Alterthümer unserer heidnischen Vorzeit, Band ii. Heft iv. Taf. 3. Portions of similar handles, made of bone, and found in London, are preserved in the British Museum, chiefly from the Roach Smith Collection; there are also in the museum two fragments of the same kind from Cologne.

page 251 note a Only one other sword of this date with a perfect handle is known to me, a Hungarian specimen, noticed further on.

page 253 note a In the same collection (that of Mr. Durden, of Blandford) is the end of a sword sheath found at Spettisbury, Dorset, a fragment of another sword-handle from Hod Hill, and other remains of the same period.

page 254 note a Exhibited to the Society, Jan. 21, 1858. See Proceedings, iv. 145. It is also engraved in Collectanea Antiqua, iii. pl. xvi.

page 254 note b Exhibited to the Society February 25, 1858. See Proceedings, iv. 166. Two other swords with bronze sheaths, found in the Witham at Washingborongh, were exhibited at the Lincoln Meeting of the Archæological Institute by S. M. Peto, Esq. and James Peto, Esq. These I have never had an opportunity of examining.

page 255 note a Proceedings, 2nd S. i. 263.

page 256 note a Proceedings, iv. 145.

page 256 note b Engravings of the two sheaths in the Rev. W. Greenwell's collection have appeared in Lindenschmit, Alterthümer unserer heidnischen Vorzeit, Band iii. Heft iii. Taf. 3, but the localities are wrongly stated.

page 257 note a Abbildungen von Mainzer Alterthümern, No. iv. p. 8. Mainz, 1852.

page 257 note b Engraved in Guide to National Museum, Buda-Pesth ; and in Transactions of the Prehistoric Congress at Paris, p. 334.

page 257 note c Two of these are from the Roach Smith collection. See his Catalogue of the Museum of London Antiquities, p. 100, Nos. 531, 532, where one of them is engraved. They are erroneously classed as Anglo-Saxon.

page 257 note d Exhibited to the Society April 15, 1858. See Proceedings, iv. 188.

page 258 note a A list of these Gaulish cemeteries is given by M. Bertrand, Archéologie Celtique et Gauloise, p. 373. b This solid ornament was penannular, with two expanding terminations, and closely resembled some of the Irish gold ornaments.

page 258 note c Mazard, in Revue Archéologique, 1877, pp. 154, 217. Fourdrignier, Double Sépulture Gauloise de la Gorge-Meillet. Paris, 1878.

page 258 note d Mazard, loc. cit. Morel, Album des Cimetières de la Marne, 2e liv. pi. 7–12. Chalons sur Marne, 1876.

page 258 note e Album, pl. i. fig. 2.

page 258 note f Ibid. pl. ii. figs. 9–13.

page 258 note g Rev. Arch. xiv. p. 26.

page 259 note a Coehet, Sépultures Gauloises, &c. 1857, p. 406. Seine Inferieure, p. 327.

page 259 note b Ib. p. 407. Seine Inferieure, p. 424.

page 259 note c Coehet, Seine Inferioure, pp. 303, 460.

page 259 note d See also Rev. Arch. xii. p. 81. Lindenschmit, Alterthümer, Band iii. Heft ii. Taf. 1, No. 14.

page 259 note c See Dr. Ferdinand Keller's seven reports on the subject, published in the Transactions of the Antiquarian Society of Zurich; the two editions of the Lake Dwellings of Switzerland, translated from Dr. Keller, and arranged by J. E. Lee, P.S.A. 1866 and 1878 ; Troyon, Habitations Lacustres, 1860.

page 260 note a Engraved in Transactions of the Prehistoric Congress at Paris, p. 294.

page 260 note b See also A. Jahn, in Jahrbücher des Vereins von Alterthunisfreunden im Rheinlande, 1854, p. 135.

page 260 note c Lindenschmit, Alterthümer unserer heidnischen Vorzeit, Heft i. Taf. 5, No. 4.

page 260 note d Similar to the one engraved in Keller's Lake Dwellings, translated by Lee, 2nd ed. p. 413.

page 261 note a Engravings of two other such swords from Germany are given in the same plate, Nos. 5, 6; another, from Heidesheim, without a sheath, in Band iii. Heft ii. Taf. 1, No. 2.

page 261 note b Lindenschmit, Alterthümer unserer heidnischen Vorzeit, Heft i. Taf. 5, Nos. 2, 3.

page 262 note a See Archæologiai Közlemenyek, Kepatlasz ii. pl. iv. v. 1861.

page 262 note b Di una antica necropoli a Marzabotto nel Bolognese. Fol. Bologna, 1865. Ulteriori scoperte nell' antica necropoli a Marzabotto nel Bolognese. Fol. Bologna, 1870.

page 282 note c See Compte-rendu du Congres Préhistorique de Bologne, p. 258.

page 282 note d Archéologie Celtique et Gauloise, p. 359. Paris, 1876.

page 263 note a Proceedings, iv. 188; Roach Smith, Collectanea Antiqua, vi. pl. ii. figs. 2, 3.

page 263 note b Proceedings, 2nd S. i. 234.

page 263 note c Skelton's Armoury at Goodrich Court, i. pi. xlv. fig. 3.

page 263 note d Catalogue of the Museum of the Archeological Institute at Worcester (1852), p. 13.

page 263 note e Bonstetten, Notice sur des Armes et Chariots de Guerre décourerts à Tiefenau, pi. ii.-iv.

page 264 note a Proc. iv. 158.

page 265 note a Evans, Coins of the Ancient Britons, p. 26.

page 265 note b Etruria Celtica, Dublin, 1842.

page 266 note a These were found in the beds of rivers, the Thames and Witham, and therefore cannot be trusted to prove a contemporary existence of swords of the two metals, especially when they are dredged up and found by workmen without any archaeological superintendence.—A. W. F.

page 266 note b This is, I think, an error; such heads were found at Stanwick, but there is no evidence that they formed part of sword-sheaths.—A. W. F.