. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. as justified in regarding those engraved as Figs. 273, 274, 275,as heads of javelins; and they may, therefore, be taken first inorder. Two of them have already been engraved.§ Their beau-tifully worked surfaces had, however, hardly had justice done them,and, by the kindness of Dr. Thurnam, I have been able to have * Journ. R. U. Serv. Inst. t Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, vol. i. p. Woods Nat. Hist, of ^Ian, vol. i. p. 284.§ Proc. Soc. Ant., 2nd S., vol. ii. p. 429. JAVELIN-HEADS. 331 them engraved afresh. They were fo
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. as justified in regarding those engraved as Figs. 273, 274, 275,as heads of javelins; and they may, therefore, be taken first inorder. Two of them have already been engraved.§ Their beau-tifully worked surfaces had, however, hardly had justice done them,and, by the kindness of Dr. Thurnam, I have been able to have * Journ. R. U. Serv. Inst. t Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, vol. i. p. Woods Nat. Hist, of ^Ian, vol. i. p. 284.§ Proc. Soc. Ant., 2nd S., vol. ii. p. 429. JAVELIN-HEADS. 331 them engraved afresh. They were found in 1864, in companywith another almost identical in form with the middle figure, closeto the head of a contracted skeleton, in an oval barrow on Win-terbourn Stoke Down, about a mile and a half north-west of Stone-henge. They are most skilfully chipped on both faces, whichare equally convex, and they are not more than a quarter of aninch in thickness. As will be observed, three are leaf-shaped, andone lozenge-shaped, and this latter, though larger, is thinner and.
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