Moor, near Scarborough.[1] A fine lozenge-shaped javelin-head (5 inches) was found with arrow-heads, scrapers, and knives, near Longcliffe,[2] Derbyshire, and some delicate arrow-heads, broken, at Harborough Rocks,[3] in the same county. Javelin-heads of much the same form as those from Winterbourn Stoke and Calais Wold occur not unfrequently in Ireland, but are rarely quite so delicately chipped. Lozenge-shaped arrow-heads are recorded from a cairn at Unstan,[4] Orkney, and from the Culbin Sands.[5] The class having both faces polished, though still only chipped at the edges, like Wilde's[6] Fig. 27, has not, except in Portugal, as yet occurred out of Ireland. A few of these may have served as knives or daggers, as they are intentionally rounded by grinding at the more tapered end, which at first sight appears to have been intended for the point and not for the handle. The long lozenge-shaped form is found in the Government of Vladimir, Russia.[7]
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Large lozenge-shaped lance-heads were occasionally in use among the North American Indians;[8] but the more usual form is a long blade, notched at the base to receive the ligature which binds it to the shaft.
- ↑ Arch. Assoc. Journ., vol. iv. p. 103.
- ↑ Reliq., N. S., vol. iii. pl. iv. 8.
- ↑ Op. cit., p. 224.
- ↑ Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., vol. xix. p. 350.
- ↑ P. S. S. A., vol. xxv. p. 499.
- ↑ See Wakeman, "Arch. Hib.," p. 270.
- ↑ Cong. Préh. Moscou, 1892, vol. ii. p. 240.
- ↑ Schoolcraft, "Ind. Tribes," vol. i. pl. xxvi. 4.
