skians

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Like the costly arms and ornaments found in our bogs, they are substantial witnesses of a distinct civilisation; and their credit is no more diminished by the rubbish in which they chance to be found than the authenticity of the ancient _torques_ and _skians_ by their embedment in the mud.

Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry Thomas Osborne Davis 1829