58 DORSET-FOUND CELTIC AND ROMAN BRONZE OBJECTS. 



iii. SPEAR-HEADS. 



Of bronze spear-heads, this Museum possesses only two found in 

 Dorset. They are from Jordan Hill, a Roman site. But inasmuch as 

 from the same place there are two bronze celts, one being of the earliest 

 shape (Br. 2), and the other, a socketed one (Br. 19), it would seem to 

 have been occupied by Bronze-age Celts before the Romans came. 

 These spear-heads, being like some of Sir J. Evans' illustrations, are 

 therefore here classed as Celtic. (See Evans* " Bronze Implements," 

 Ed. i. p. 312, &c.) 



No of 

 Case. 



No. of 

 Object. 



Br. 35. 



Br. 36. 



Br. 37. 



Locality, &c. 



Jordan Hill, Weymouth. 



6|in. long. The socket's bore is fin. 

 Point imperfect, and much worn or ground. 

 A hole in the socket for a rivet. The 

 mid-rib has three facets, slightly hollow. 



Jordan Hill. 



5fin. long. Point very much ground 

 away. Socket fin. bore, no rivet hole. 

 The mid-rib is narrow but projecting 

 boldly with two facets. Parallel with the 

 edges are several slight, irregular lines, re- 

 calling those on daggers. 



Hnvish Farm, Milton Abbas. 



It is difficult to classify this object. 

 From its general shape it may be a light 

 javelin head. But against this there is the 

 shape of what remains of the socket, the 

 section of which is a narrow oval. This, 

 with the thinness of the blade, and its 

 having no mid-rib, perhaps show that 

 it is a knife rather than a javelin head, 

 Siin. long, in. wide. The socket is im- 

 perfect. 



How procured. 



With the Warue 

 Collection. 



Do. 



Do. 



