2 J. J. Tierney, ‘The Celtic ethnography of Posidonius’, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (C) 60 (1960), 251-70.

3 Cunliffe, Ancient Celts, 6-7.

4 J. Pearl, Caesar’s Gallic war (New York 1962) 1-277.

5 ibid. 122.

6 ibid. 129.

7 K. H. Jackson, The oldest Irish tradition: a window on the Iron Age (Cambridge 1964) 17.

8 J. P. Mallory, Aspects of the Táin (Belfast 1992) 148.

9 Tierney, ‘Celtic ethnography of Posidonius’, 251.

10 Cunliffe, Ancient Celts, 68.

11 J. Simon, The world of the Celts (London 1993) 75.

12 American Society for Metals, ‘How alloying elements affect the properties of copper alloys’, http://www.matweb.com/reference/copper-alloys.asp [cited 1990 17-18].

13 Jackson, Oldest Irish tradition, 16.

14 Cunliffe, Ancient Celts, 97.

15 ibid. 97.

16 ibid. 97.

17 Pearl, Caesar’s Gallic war, 81.

18 Tierney, ‘The Celtic ethnography of Posidonius’, 251.

19 Jackson, Oldest Irish tradition, 15.

20 Mallory, Aspects of the Táin,137.

21 Cunliffe, Ancient Celts, 94.

22 Tierney, ‘The Celtic ethnography of Posidonius’, 251.

23 Mallory, Aspects of the Táin,132.

24 ibid.132

25 Jackson, Oldest Irish tradition, 15. The sword he refers to is from the Táin.

26 Mallory, Aspects of the Táin, 132.