Ilios; the city and country of the TrojansThe results of researches and discoveries on the site of Troy and throughout the Troad in the years 1871-72-73-78-79, including an autobiography of the author . to say in what manner it could have been fastened to the 1423 is a bronze arrow-head without barbs. Similar arrow-headsare found in No. 1424 is a lance-head of bronze. Unlike allthe lance-heads found in the third, the burnt city,5 this lance-head has a 2 Bullettino di Paletnologia Italiana, 1875,PI. iv. No. 1. 3 Ibid. January and February, 1879, PI. 11. The knife befor
Ilios; the city and country of the TrojansThe results of researches and discoveries on the site of Troy and throughout the Troad in the years 1871-72-73-78-79, including an autobiography of the author . to say in what manner it could have been fastened to the 1423 is a bronze arrow-head without barbs. Similar arrow-headsare found in No. 1424 is a lance-head of bronze. Unlike allthe lance-heads found in the third, the burnt city,5 this lance-head has a 2 Bullettino di Paletnologia Italiana, 1875,PI. iv. No. 1. 3 Ibid. January and February, 1879, PI. 11. The knife before us resembles likewisesome of the bronze knives found in the SwissLake-dwellings (see V. Gross, Ekultats des Recherclies dans les Lacs de la Suisse occidental;Zurich, 1876, PI. v.). 4 J. J. A. Worsaae, Nordiske Oldsager, PI. 145. * In the other four pre-historic cities of His-sarlik no lance-heads of bronze were found. Chap. X.] LANCE AND ARROW-HEADS : HORSES BITS. 605 tube, in which the wooden shaft was fixed. As I have already stated, allthe Homeric lances seem to have had a similar tube for the , all the lance-heads found by me at Mycenae are similar tothat before Nos. 1422-1425. Lance, Arrow-heads, and Fragment of Bridle of Bronze (Nearly half actual size. Depth, 6 ft.) The object No. 1425 is also of bronze, with three rings, of which thelower one is broken; it seems to be part of a bridle. This is also theopinion of Mr. John Evans, who has in his collection a similar object, withthe sole difference that the rings, instead of protruding as on the Hissarlikbridle, are here in the centre of circular projections in the rod of thebridle. Moreover, a bronze bridle was found by Dr. Y. Gross in the Lake-dwellings at the station of Moeringen, in the Lake of Bienne, composed oftwo pieces almost perfectly similar to that of the object before us; thebit for the mouth of the horse was fixed in the middle ring in both cases,the sole difference being that th
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