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FOUND IN SCOTLAND.
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Fig. 325.—Urquhart.

Fig. 324.—Isle of Skye. Fig. 326.—Aberdeenshire.


Fig. 327.—Glenlivet.

I have already mentioned the counties of Scotland in which "elf-bolts" are most abundantly found. I may now enumerate a few of the spots, and the characters of the specimens of this form. One much like Fig. 327, but with the barbs more pointed, is figured by Wilson,[1] as well as another[2] like Fig. 305, found in a tumulus at Killearn, Stirlingshire. One from the Isle of Skye,[3] like Fig. 316, and another from Shapinsay, Orkney,[4] like Fig. 312, have been figured by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Others, found with burnt bones in an urn deposited in a cairn in Banff, have been engraved by Pennant,[5] and some from Lanarkshire are given in the Journal of the Archæological Association.[6]

Stemmed and barbed arrow-heads are recorded to have been found in
  1. "Preh. Ann. of Scot.," vol. i. pl. ii. 14.
  2. "Preh. Ann. of Scot.," p. 182.
  3. "Acc. of Inst., &c., of S. A. Scot.," p. 389.
  4. P. S. A. S., vol. xii. p. 183.
  5. "Tour. in Scot.," vol. i. p. 156, pl. xxi.
  6. Vol. xvii. p. 19.