262 Sotne Un- Described Articles in the Stourhead Collection. 



found with a deposit of burnt bones, and " appeared to have been 

 alnaost melted into a rude lump by the heat of the funeral pile." 

 The engraving here given^ Fig. 4, shows how fitly this description 

 answers to the actual condition of that weapon. The dotted outline 



Fig. 4. 



Fiff. 5. 



exhibits the original shape. It is an early form, with two bronze 

 rivets, and has no ornament. Towards the point, which is folded 

 quite over, it has been melted, and in one part the metal appears to 

 have run into a drop. The other end has not been so much heated, 

 as one of the rivets is still in its place, and is quite uninjured. 



The other implement, erroneously described by Dr. Thurnam as 

 having been found in the Wilsford Group (figured by him in 

 " Archseologia,^^ p. 447, fig. 153), was obtained by Mr. Cunnington, 

 in 1802, from a barrow near Stonehenge, and the identity of the 

 specimen is proved by the following extracts from Mr. Cunnington's 

 MSS. (B. 2, p. 50). Speaking of the group of barrows, " No. 14," 

 near Stonehenge (in one of which the large "Stonehenge'' Urn 

 was discovered), he says: — "in one of them we found a brass 

 [bronze] spear-head. It was immediately under the turf, and was 

 much corroded, but in form it is similar to one figured in GougVs 

 Camden, vol. iii., pi. 39, fig. 'h." [The engraving here spoken of 

 is a socJceted looped spear-head.] 



