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IX. Observations on some brass Celts, and other Weapons discovered in Ireland, 1780; by the Rev. Mr. Pegge. In a Letter to the Rev. Michael Lort, D.D. V.P.A.S.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
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It is but a very imperfect account I can give you of a late discovery, in the antiquarian way, made in Ireland; however it is the best I am able to offer. About the year 1780, two pieces of antiquity were found in a bog in West-Meath, unaccompanied with any thing else of note. Lady Sharborne, having been in that kingdom this summer, the pieces I mentioned happily came into her hands, and her Ladyship, on her return to England was so obliging as to make me a present of them.
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page 84 note [a] See pl. III.
page 85 note [b] Dr. Borlase, plate XXIV.
page 85 note [c] See hereafter.
page 85 note [d] Dr. Lort, Archæologia, vOl V. p. 106, & seq.
page 86 note [e] Dr. Borlase, p. 289, seq. Montfaucon, Antiq. IV. p. 37. It is mentioned accordingly by Homer, Il. Δ. 123, Θ. 15. The Dohæ and Chalybes were the first inventors. Amm. Marcell. xxii. c. 8.
page 86 note [f] Genesis iv. 22. Montfaucon esteems iron to be as old as the world, IV. p. 37.
page 87 note [g] Dr. Borlase, p. 290. Gov. Pownall, Archæologia, III. p. 536. Montfaucon, l. c.
page 87 note [h] Quære, when iron was first known in England?
page 87 note [i] Montfaucon, l. c. Mr. Hearne, Letter to Mr. Thoresby, in Leland's Itin. I. p. 135–138. Dr. Lort. l. c. p. 108. Gov. Pawnall, l. c. p. 355.
page 88 note [k] But see a different etymon, from cœlare, to engrave, in Dr. Borlase, p. 283, which, however, I do not approve.
page 88 note [l] Dr. Borlase, p. 282.
page 88 note [m] Idem, ibid.
page 88 note [n] Idem, p. 281.
page 88 note [o] Idem, p. 283.
page 88 note [p] See also Dr. Borlase, l. c.
page 89 note [q] Col. Vallancey, Gram. p. 2, Camden, col. 1315, and others.
page 89 note [r] Dr. Lort, l. c.
page 89 note [s] Sir James Ware, p. 161. edit. Harris.
page 89 note [t] Idem, p. 217, It seems they were often found in this island.
page 90 note [u] Antiq. of Ireland, p. 161.
page 90 note [x] Polybius, in Montfaucon, IV. p. 40.
page 90 note [y] Vegetius, II. c. 15.
page 91 note [z] Idem, l. c. 20. II. c. 15.
page 91 note [a] Appianus de Bello Gallico. p. 1191. edit. Tollij.
page 91 note [b] See Horace ii. s. i. 14. and the Commentators Dacier and Baxter: also Polybius in Montfaucon, IV. p. 40, and Stewechius ad Vegetium, p. 42.
page 92 note [c] Compare Vegetius, l. c. 20. II. c. 15. Appian. de Bello Gall. l. c.
page 92 note [d] Montfaucon, p. 13, 14, 15.
page 92 note [e] Cæsar de Bello Gallico V. c. 36.
page 92 note [f] Livy, X. 29.
page 92 note [g] Vegetius, III. c. 14.
page 92 note [h] Montf. IV. p. 41.
page 93 note [i] Cæsar, l. c.
page 93 note [k] Herodotus, Polymn. c. 77.
page 93 note [l] Col. Vallancey, Introd. to Irish Gram. passim. Pezron I. c. 19. II c. 1. Pelloutier I. c. 10.
page 94 note [m] This is somewhat obtuse in the drawing, the extremity having been broken off, and perhaps at the time it was thrown.
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