The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . nd or-namental devices. The w^oodcut represents a very fine double-loopedspear-head, five and two-fifth inches long, found near the river Dean,Angusshire, and now in the collection of Mr. Bell of and spear-heads, decorated with similar indented ornaments,have been met with both in Scotland and Ireland. The larger spear-heads also now occureyed, as it is termed, orperforated with a varietyof ornamental openings,frequently surioundedwith a raised border, decorated ac-cording to the fancy of the designer. Among t
The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . nd or-namental devices. The w^oodcut represents a very fine double-loopedspear-head, five and two-fifth inches long, found near the river Dean,Angusshire, and now in the collection of Mr. Bell of and spear-heads, decorated with similar indented ornaments,have been met with both in Scotland and Ireland. The larger spear-heads also now occureyed, as it is termed, orperforated with a varietyof ornamental openings,frequently surioundedwith a raised border, decorated ac-cording to the fancy of the designer. Among the broken and half-melted arms dredged outof Duddingstone Loch are numerous fnigments of such Eyed Spear-heads, and several very beautiful perfect specimens are preserved inthe Museum of the Scottish Antiquaries, as well as at Abbotsford, andin other private collections. They are extremely various in form, ex-hibiting such a diversity of design even in the simple patterns, as wellas of ornamental details in the more elaborate ones, as amply to con-. WEAPONS AND IMPLEMENTS. 263 firm the idea suggested by so many remains of the bronze period, thatthese relics were the products of no central manufactory, much lessthe importation of foreign traders, but were designed and mouldedaccording to the taste and skill of the local artificer, most frequentlyfor his own use. One remarkable feature in the largest and mostelaborate of those in the Scottish Museum, represented in the an-nexed engraving, abundantly confirms the system of classification
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