A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . FiG. 69. — Hammer,Tliorndon, Suffolk. Fig. 70.—Hammer,Ireland. tened loops seen on the socket, are found at various points in thebroader part of the blade on either side of the central ridge ; andthese openings in time become larger and often crescent-shaped,while the projections disappear (pi. ii, 1). One of this last patternis known from Central Kussia. It is, however, by no meansimprobable that the openings in the blade were due in the firstjilace to imitation of an early form of spear-head
A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . FiG. 69. — Hammer,Tliorndon, Suffolk. Fig. 70.—Hammer,Ireland. tened loops seen on the socket, are found at various points in thebroader part of the blade on either side of the central ridge ; andthese openings in time become larger and often crescent-shaped,while the projections disappear (pi. ii, 1). One of this last patternis known from Central Kussia. It is, however, by no meansimprobable that the openings in the blade were due in the firstjilace to imitation of an early form of spear-head found in thesecond city at Hissarlik(;oo-2ooo )and in the Greek Islands,where the flat lilade was inserted in a cleft stick bound by a cordpassing through the openings (fig. 118). This type may well havel)een transmitted hj sea from the Eastern Mediterranean early inthe Bronze age, and it may be noticed that holes, perhajis relics EVOLUTION OF SPEAR-HEAD 83 of larspearfrom •ger openings, are found at the base of the blade in severalheads from Italy (Case J), and in a remarkable spec
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