EARLY MAN 



—Ribbed Socketed Celt from 



WiNMARLEIGH. 2 : 3. 



A number of socketed celts are recorded ^ as having been found in the 



River Ribble, the locality not being stated. They seem to have been five in 



number, mostly looped. Of these, one was quite plain hke the above, 2 fin. 



in length, but was provided with a rim 



around the mouth, to which the loop was 



attached at one end. 



The next sketch, fig. 18, shows a 



difference of feature in the double rim 



about the mouth of the implement and the 



three elementary ribs along the length. 



The blade is not outcurving to widen the 



edge. Its extreme length is 3! in., breadth 



at mouth ijin., and across the edge i|in. 



This implement was found at Winmarleigh with two spears and four other 



celts, as described in the next section. One other of the celts from the same 



site is of this character. 



Quite similar, too, is one found at Walton-le-Dale, on the Ribble near 



to Preston (in the parish of Cuerdale). This one is 3^ in. in length, with a 



breadth of ij in. across the mouth and i^ in. 

 across the edge. There is a feeling to the touch 

 that the ends of the decorative ridges are very 

 slightly bulbed, as in the case of the Winwick 

 celt, Plate IV. No. 6. The marks of the casting 

 are quite plain around the sides of the weapon. 

 This celt is in the museum at Preston, and it 

 seems to correspond with that described ^ as 

 having been found at Cuerdale in 1838 by men 

 in deepening a ditch, between three and four feet 

 from the surface, about three or four yards from 



a spear-head described in the next section. 



The next figure, fig. 19, shows a third of the Winmarleigh celts, varying 



from the former examples in the broad outcurve of the sides towards the edge, 



which is 2 in. across. The rim is i J in. wide, and the implement 2I in. in 



length. It is decorated, as before, with three plain ribs. It was found with 



the spear and four other celts, as subsequently 



described. Three others of the celts from the 



same site are of this character. 



The fourth of the Winmarleigh celts is an 



isolated specimen, distinguished by the sharp 



recurve of the ends of its outcurved edge, as 



shown in the annexed drawing, fig. 20. In 



other respects it is similar to those which have 



been described, and it is ornamented with the 



same three ribs along the face. Its length is 



3 in., breadth across the mouth i J in., and across 



the edge, extreme measure, 2 in. Like the previous example it was found 



in the deposit of two spears and five celts described on p. 236, and illustrated 



in Nos. 1-7 on Plate V. 



Fig. 19. — Celt with Outcurving 

 Edge from Winmarleigh. 2:3. 



Fig. 20. — Celt with Recurving 

 Edge from Winmarleigh. 2 : 3 



1 Trans. Manchester Lit. and Phil. Soc. v. 527, 534, with plate. 

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^ Arch. Journ. viu. 331-2. 

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