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IN MILITARY 0PEKATI0N8. 371 instances, and more especially in the continued use of the upright loom described by Homer, Virgil, and Ovid,'^ we find ancient usages lingering in Iceland after they have been abandoned in all the rest of Europe. In like manner it appears that the Icelanders still use the dolabra in the culti- vation of their fields and gardens, in accordance with the precepts of Columella and l^alladius. If, then, we have ample proof that these instruments were used in tilling the soil, we may the more readily admit their employment in any military operations, which required the same kind of manual labour. V. — Another important circumstance in support of the same view is, that bronze celts of the required form are chiefly found about ancient encampments, and in various instances a great number have been discovered together. In the Isle of Anglesea a parcel was found under a stone near the spot where the Romans made their attack upon the Britons, under Suetonius.^ " No less than eighty were found some years since in the parish of La Trinite, in Jersey.""^ " In May, 1735, there were found above one hundred on Easterley Moor, twelve miles north-west of York, together with several lumps of metal, and a quantity of cinders, so that no doubt remained of there having been a forge at that place for making them." " They have been found of the same form at Danbury and Fifield, in Essex, with a quantity of metal." ^ This is the well-known site of a Roman encampment. ]Iore than forty were found in 1726 in Hulne Park, near Alnwick Castle, with twenty swords and sixteen spear- heads, of cUfi'erent patterns.^ At Reepham, in Norfolk, thirty were found in 1747.^ A great number were found about the same time at a spot in the New Forest.^ The Count de Caylus has engraved one, which was found with twelve others under a stone twelve leagues from Paris, on the road from .Versailles to Houdan. Some of them had never been used, as they retained " the seams of the mould" (les barbes du moule). The Count adds, that these instru- Luke, xii. 39. The Greeks used the verb * Lukis, in Archaeol. Journal, vol. i., p. 226. SiopuTTfii'. The Hebrew name for the celt appears to have been ntt-ino. See 1 ^ Borlase, Ant. of Cornwall, pp. 283, 284. Sam. xiii. 20. ^ Arcliaeolosia, vol. v., p. 113. - See article "Tela"' In Smitli's Die- ? Ibid, p. 114. tionai'y of Greek jvnd Roman .Vntiiiuitics. * Ibi'i. ^ Rowland, jl/o/'(f Ant., i)p. 85, 8(j.