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we do find them. Indeed, a friend of mine used, when a boy, to 

 pick up dozens of them, and literally play at ducks and drakes 

 with them. I don't say that this difference between Dorset and 

 Sussex proves the races of dwellers in the two counties to have 

 been diverse in Neolithic times, but it looks that way. Of course, 

 however, this point can here be only indicated, not followed up. 

 The roughest arrow-heads need no description. Indeed, they 

 almost defy it, in their varied rudeness. Of more carefully wrought 

 arrow-heads there are several shapes, such as the leaf form ; the 

 simply triangular ; triangular with a slight notch at one side ; the 

 same with the notch deepened so as to produce a two-barbed form ; 

 the same with one barb ; the triangle with two notches, forming a 

 sort of tang between the barbs ; the same developed into the fully 

 barbed and tanged make ; and lastly, according to Evans, a chisel- 

 edged form. The leaf form is often carried out splendidly, both for 

 arrow and for lance-heads. Of the former, the Museum possesses 

 several good Dorset specimens, particularly one from near Cranborne, 

 in the Smart Collection (PI. I., fig. 1). This is noted by Mr. 

 Thurman in the Archseologia and in Warne's Celtic Tumuli. It is 

 worked with much delicacy and to a very thin section. Indeed, the 

 thinness of some arrow-heads, both of this and the barbed sort, looks 

 like a display of skill in producing a beautiful weapon for show, 

 but too fragile for use. One leaf -shaped head in the Cunnington 

 Collection is large, and may have been for a javelin rather than 

 an arrow. The same may be said of the splendid Cranborne 

 one just noticed. Dr. Smart, by-the-bye, tells me of a remarkable 

 localisation of javelin heads, at least as regards that district. In 

 the long series of years over which his researches there have 

 extended, he has found large weapon heads only in low ground, 

 near the stream ; never on Pentridge Hill and other high ground, 

 where small arrow-heads abound. He conjectures that the javelins 

 may have been used as fish spears or for killing animals frequenting 

 marshes. But this Cranborne specimen is small compared to some 

 from other localities, such as the splendid one from Gloucestershire 

 in the non-Dorset Warne Collection. Of the other specified forms 



