Professor Macalister now inclines to regard the socketed stone as a laver rather than as the base of the sacred pole.
The socketed or mortising chisel (38) is unknown till the Italian bronze of the 8th century B.
It is probable that the flint spear-head continued in use into the Bronze Age, and that the spear-head with a socket was not invented until socketed celts were made.
The early spear-heads were simply knife-shaped bronze weapons riveted to the ends of shafts, but by degrees the graceful socketed spear-heads of the late bronze age were developed.
The square legs required a square-socketed castor; then came the cabrioles or brass collars to the castors, very ornamental and suitable to the style of the shaped legs of mahogany furniture ornamented by carving and curiously turned.
Sometimes they give trouble when the glue loosens, but the socketed club is much easier to break.
Always use spliced in preference to socketed clubs.
This handle was 13 1∕2 inches long, and more clumsy at the socketed end than that from Solway Moss.
The manner of hafting the socketed celts is well shown by a handled socketed celt found at Edenderry, King's Co.
When we get into the true Bronze Age, we find a complete and probably fairly rapid evolution of type from the flat celt to the final socketed form.
Two remarkably fine specimens of this type were found in 1912 with a socketed spear-head at Tempo, County Fermanagh.
The form of the moulds for the socketed spear-heads shows them to be at the very commencement of this type; and it was probable that the tanged type was rapidly superseded by the improved socketed form.
Socketed bronze hammers resembling the Irish examples are fairly common in England and on the Continent.
These ornamental spear-heads belong, as a type, to the British Islands, where the socketed spear-head itself appears to have been evolved.
Half of mould for casting a socketed spear-head, Killymeddy, Co.
Square-socketed Iron Hatchet, found in one of the Lakes of Switzerland.
Swords, spear-heads, daggers, knives, socketed hatchets and winged hatchets form the catalogue of the sharp instruments.
Socketed Knife, from the Lacustrine settlements of Switzerland.
He had been to the Rangeley Lakes, and he had not been to Hampden Falls; besides, there would be Ned Harding and those queer old maids with their shaded house and socketed chairs to see.
She soon had every one laughing, even Cyril, over her stories of the lawyer's home that might have been hers, with its gloom and its hush and its socketed chairs.
Among the weapons we findsocketed lance-heads (=Fig.
Sickles and axes, both socketed and winged, generally with a side loop, but without a notch at the top.
In the first two holes nothing was found, but in the third an ox skull, broken bones, portions of pointed implements of bone, and a bronze socketed spear-head were disinterred.
Of bronze only onesocketed celt with side loop and portion of an arm band are mentioned.
A socketed pointed iron on a staff; it is slightly barbed, and is a special tool for sticking turtle.
The harpoon iron is a socketed tool, tapering 3 feet to the barb-heads; on that iron socket a becket is worked; the staff fits in loosely.
Both flanged and socketed celts occurred, the iron being much more numerous than the bronze.
The flat axes are distinguished by the side stops and in some cases the transition from palstave to socketed axe can be seen.
It had two "trees," like spade handles, set side by side, each of which was socketed into an iron bent forwards like a letter L.
Later still come the socketed hatchets of many patterns, with endless ingenious little devices for securing some small advantage to the special manufacturer.
Others, again, have a socketed head from the side of which projects a cutting blade of various sizes and forms which might be the halberd in an incipient stage.
Before the evolution of the socketed celt the latter was inserted in a cleft stick and projected from one side at right angles, being firmly bound in that position by cross-lacing.
Knobs of bronze occur having a socketed centre and projecting spikes upon the sides which undoubtedly when fitted to suitable handles formed the maces of the Bronze Age (Fig.
On socketedbronze celts one frequently finds (Plate I.
In process of time the stone spear points of our ancestors were replaced by bronze, and during the evolution of the palstave, or socketed bronze celt (Plate I.
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