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.

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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.

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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.

Type: Research Article
Information: Archaeologia , Volume 9 , 1789 , pp. 84 - 95

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S026134090002453X [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1789

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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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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.

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