. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. into a split piece of wood into which they are bound by a from the north-west coast, thus mounted, is in the British Museum. * Arch. Journ., rol. viii. p. 329. Brist. vol. A. I., p. lix. Proc. R. I. A., vol. 176. t Hor. Fer., p. 137. Fig. 264.—Lamborne Down. £ DAGGERS BLUNTED TOWARDS THE BUTT. 313 Professor Nilsson* has engraved another American knife in the samecollection, but erroneously refers it to New Zealand. The blade shown in Fig. 265 is also in the British Museum, having beenformerly in the Roach S
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. into a split piece of wood into which they are bound by a from the north-west coast, thus mounted, is in the British Museum. * Arch. Journ., rol. viii. p. 329. Brist. vol. A. I., p. lix. Proc. R. I. A., vol. 176. t Hor. Fer., p. 137. Fig. 264.—Lamborne Down. £ DAGGERS BLUNTED TOWARDS THE BUTT. 313 Professor Nilsson* has engraved another American knife in the samecollection, but erroneously refers it to New Zealand. The blade shown in Fig. 265 is also in the British Museum, having beenformerly in the Roach Smith Collection. It is of nearly black flint, andwas found in the Thames. Its length is still 7 inches, but from the formof the point it seems possible that it may, as already suggested, originallyhave been even longer. There is in the Museum another specimen fromthe Thames,! 5f inches long, in form more like Fig. 264. Both of thesehave the edges towards the butt rendered more or less blunt, and havehad any prominences removed by grinding. The same is the case with. Fig. 265.—Thames. £ a blade, 6 inches long and 2| inches wide, found in Quy Fen in 1849,and now in tLe Museum of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. In thesame collection is a smaller specimen, 4f inches long and If inches wide,from Burwell Fen. This has its edges sharp, and shows the naturalcrust of the flint at the butt, as does also one 7 inches long by 2£ incheswide, found at Jackdaw Hill, near Cambridge.;[ A remarkably fine spear-head of the notched class, 6f inches long and2f inches broad, is in the possession of Mr. Bard, of Ely. It was exhi-bited some years ago to the British Archaeological Association, and then*Proceedings,§ without giving any information as to the size, shape, or -^70 o —o • Stone Age, p. 38, pi. iii. Arch. vol. xvii. p. 170. f « Hor. Fer., pi. ii. 27. § Arch. Assoc. Journ., vol. vi. p. 441. 314 TRIMMED FLAKES, KNIVES, ETC. [CHAP. XV. character of the specimen, rec
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