. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. use as arrow-heads. This specimenwas found at Isleham, Cambridgeshire, and has un-fortunately lost its central stem, the outline of which Ihave restored from a nearly similar arrow-head found at Icklingham,Suffolk, which has lost both its barbs. It is very thin, so much so that its weight is only thirty-eight grains, but it isneatly chipped over the whole of both faces. No-thing, however, can exceed the beautiful regularityof the minute chipping by which the final outlinewas given to the edges, extremely small flakeshavi
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. use as arrow-heads. This specimenwas found at Isleham, Cambridgeshire, and has un-fortunately lost its central stem, the outline of which Ihave restored from a nearly similar arrow-head found at Icklingham,Suffolk, which has lost both its barbs. It is very thin, so much so that its weight is only thirty-eight grains, but it isneatly chipped over the whole of both faces. No-thing, however, can exceed the beautiful regularityof the minute chipping by which the final outlinewas given to the edges, extremely small flakeshaving been removed at regular intervals so closeto each other that there are twenty of them in aninch. The inner sides and ends of the barbs areworked perfectly straight, the ends forming rightangles to the sides of the arrow-head, and theinner sides being nearly parallel with each other,so that the barbs are somewhat dovetailed in form,rig. 317.—isleham. The broader, but almost equally beautiful arrow- head shown in Fig. 318 was found in front of the face of an unburnt. Fig. 316.—Reach Fen.
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