. The Archaeological journal. Evans remarks, of ordinary occur-rence both in Kent and elsewhere ; andthe only remarkable feature is an adjunctunder the horse, which appears to be in-tended for a bird. By Mr. c. Tucker.—A large bronze Bpear-head, found with Beveral others in avery decayed condition, at a spot called Bloody Tool, in the parish of SouthBrent, Devonshire, on the verge ofooor. The place is now a swampvhollow, but no longer a pool, and norecord b is been found of .m\ conflictwhich might explain the name assignedto it. With the spears, whioh were acci-dentally brought to lighl in dig
. The Archaeological journal. Evans remarks, of ordinary occur-rence both in Kent and elsewhere ; andthe only remarkable feature is an adjunctunder the horse, which appears to be in-tended for a bird. By Mr. c. Tucker.—A large bronze Bpear-head, found with Beveral others in avery decayed condition, at a spot called Bloody Tool, in the parish of SouthBrent, Devonshire, on the verge ofooor. The place is now a swampvhollow, but no longer a pool, and norecord b is been found of .m\ conflictwhich might explain the name assignedto it. With the spears, whioh were acci-dentally brought to lighl in digging, therewere four pieces oi broti q tube, whichmaj bavebeen fixed on the lower extremi-of ile- •baft-. Th( iivets of bronze bj which the spear-heads wereattached to the baft, remain pi rfect. Thelength of the -pear head, n nearljcould be a jcei tained, bad been I I inche .the Nile i breadth of the blade,The length of the tulx iboul 7 inche : diameter, even-tenths,laperiti tremity, which i- closed like the ferrule of a. ?\ t I ( 1 THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE. 86 walking-cane. The spear-heads, with one exception, were barbed, andbear resemblance to that found in the Severn, near Worcester, representedin this Journal) vol. ii., p. 187, and supposed to have been a blade in that example, now in the possession of Mr. Jabez Allies,is shorter, and of greater breadth ; in both the socket is singularly Mr. Allies Antiquities of Worcestershire, 2nd edit., p. 30. All thespears found at Bloody Pool were broken into three pieces, and withintheir blades is a sort of core, not metallic ; none appeared in the ferrules. Mr. Franks observed that there had existed much uncertainty in regardto the ancient use of rivets to affix bronze spear-heads to the shaft. Noexample of a bronze rivet, as he believed, had previously been noticed ; hehad been disposed to think they were rarely, if ever, used, and that theywere formed of wood. Spear-heads of bronze are either fo
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