. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. ire, are in the Batemah Collection. In someof the arrow-heads § from the Wiltshire barrows the barbs are inor-dinately prolonged beyond the central tang, which is very 320, copied from Hoare,|| gives one of those from a barrow nearFovant, found with a contracted interment, and in company with abronze dagger and pin and some jet ornaments. One of similarcharacter was found in a barrow on Windmill Hill,1T Avebury, but itsbarbs are not so long. An arrow-head with equally long barbs, but withthe central tang of th
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. ire, are in the Batemah Collection. In someof the arrow-heads § from the Wiltshire barrows the barbs are inor-dinately prolonged beyond the central tang, which is very 320, copied from Hoare,|| gives one of those from a barrow nearFovant, found with a contracted interment, and in company with abronze dagger and pin and some jet ornaments. One of similarcharacter was found in a barrow on Windmill Hill,1T Avebury, but itsbarbs are not so long. An arrow-head with equally long barbs, but withthe central tang of the same length as the barbs, was found in a dolmenin the Morbihan, and is in the Musee de St. Germain. Before proceeding to notice one or two Scottish specimens I must•ievote a short space to an exceptional form of arrow-head shown in * Soxith Wilts, pi. xxii. p. South Wilts, pi. xxxiv.|| South Wilts, pi. xxxiv. f u The Barrow Diggers, p. 75, pi. ii. 7.§ The Barrow Diggers, pi. ii. Salisb. vol. of Arch. Inst., p. 94. 344 JAVELIN AND ARROW-HEADS. CHAP. Fig. 321.—YorkshireMoors. Fig. 321. Like so many others, it is frein the Yorkshire Moors, and wasprobably either barbed on both sides or intended to have been so. Butone of the barbs having been broken off, possibly in thecourse of manufacture, the design has been modified,and the stump, so to speak, of the barb has been roundedoff in a neat manner by surface-flaking on both one-barbed arrow-head thus resulting presents someanalogies with several of the triangular form, such asFigs. 336 to 338, about to be described. Arrow-heads either accidentally lost before they werefinished, or thrown away as wasters, in consequenceof having been spoilt in the making, are occasionallyfound. Examples, apparently of both classes, areshown in Figs. 322 and 323. The originals are in thecollection of the Rev. W. Greenwell, Fig. 322,from Sherburn Wold, appears to have been completely finished, with theexception
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