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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



in tlie same loccility, with a i)repoiiderance in number of tliose not 

 bifurcated, points to the same conclusion. If the shaft or handle was 

 cut out so as to leceive the stem and also to lit the bifurcation, and 

 then pressed in hard and lashed with sinews after the manner of 

 arrowpoints, one can easily see that the bifurcation would increase the 

 tirinness of tlie blade in its handle. Reference is made to Plate .'i8, 

 Nos. 10-19, for other si)eciniens. 



-KXTREMEI.Y I-ON<; I'.ARBS, SQUARE AT KNDS, IINEl-Y rUlIM'Kl). 



liffs. 20-27.) 



(Plate 38, 



These are peculiar in that they are restricted to certain localities. 

 Sir John Evans says they are found in some parts of England and 

 Ireland. A beautiful specimen is figured by him/ found by Canon W. 

 Green well at Eudstone, near Bridlington, which is here reproduced as 

 fig. 187. They much resemble the Queen's "broad arrow." 



Our interest in this class arises from the 

 fact that, while they are confined to-restricted 

 localities in Europe as mentioned, they 

 should have appeared in America in an 

 equally circumscribed area, namely, the State 

 of Georgia. Figs. 20 to 23 on Plate 38 are of 

 this class and form part of the McGlashan 

 and Steiner collections from that State. 



De Mortillet mentions them and calls them 

 "pointes de fleche a barbelures Equarries," 

 and assigns them to the first epoch of bronze, 

 the Morgieu. He figures one ^ in the Musee 

 St. Germain as from the north of Ireland 

 and collected by Sir John Evans. It has no 

 stem, its base is concave, and the barbs are 

 long, with parallel edges and square ends. 

 Others, from Loir-et-Cher, have stems. The edges of the barbs are 

 parallel and the ends are straight, but instead of being square — that 

 is, at right angles — one is oblique inward and the other outward. 

 Kemark this difterence in Figs. 20-23 of Plate 38. 



Fig. 187. 



PECULIAlt FORM OF ARROWI'UINT, 

 WITH EXTREMELY LONG BARBS, 

 SQUARE AT ENDS. 



Itiidstoii, England. 

 Division IV, Cla.ss D. 



Found by Canon >V'. (Ireenwfll. 



' Ancient Stone Implements, p. 343, fig. 318. 

 ^ Musde Prohistorique, pi. XLiii, (ig. 373. 



