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No. 18. — A well made spear head with lozenge-shaped 

 loops at the sides, | ins. in length, to assist in the shafting, 

 and at a distance of i|- ins. from the bottom, though one of 

 these is broken. It somewhat resembles Evans's No. 394 

 from Thetford, Suffolk, but the example figured herewith us 

 almost devoid of ornamentation, though there are just traces 

 of two slight grooves running round the edge of the blade, and 

 two clearl}^ marked narrow grooves round the edge of the 

 socket. Measurements : Length 7I ins., greatest width i| ins., 

 length of shaft, 3 ins. The socket extends into the spear for 

 at least 5i ins. This specimen was found at Bawtry. Weight 

 4 ozs. 



No. 19. — A well made spear head with side loops of some- 

 what primitive pattern, at a distance of | in. from the bottom. 

 The blade is slightly decorated by a ridge on each side of the 

 medial ridge, and marks of the mould are clearly shown. 

 Measurements : Length, 5| ins., greatest width of blade, 

 lA ins., length of shaft 2} ins., length of socket 3 ins., width 

 across neck, which is damaged, | in. This was found at Ross- 

 ington in 1842. Weight 2 oz. 



No. 20 is a well patinated example, which has a shght 

 flaw on one side of the blade. There are well-formed loops at 

 a distance of i in. from the bottom, and a shght hollow around 

 the base of the socket, which still shows the original file markings 

 made in sharpening. Length, 5]- in., greatest width, i in., 

 length of shaft 2\ ins., length of socket 3I ins., possibly more. 

 This was found at Doncaster. Weight 2 ozs. The specimen 

 is similar to that from Hutton Cranswick (tig. 26) in The 

 Naturalist for Maj^ 1897. 



In reference to these last-named implements, a valuable 

 paper on ' The Origin, Evolution, and Classification of the 

 Bronze Spear-head in Great Britain and Ireland,' by W. 

 Greenwell and W. P. Brewis, appears in Archaeolo^ia, Vol. 

 LXL, pt. 2, 1909, pp. 439-472. In this it is pointed out 

 (p. 458) that ' the leaf-shaped socketed form, if we may judge 

 from the relative number of the type which have been dis- 

 covered, appears to have been in use during a longer time than 

 any other. It is, moreover, essentially the type which almost 

 exclusively prevailed in all other countries where a bronze 

 spear-head existed. It was not, however, in those countries 

 the product of an evolution through other forms, but seems 

 to have made its appearance there when in a perfected state. 

 This fact, which cannot be controverted, may perhaps claim 

 for Great Britain and Ireland that not only did the socketed 

 head originate there independently, but further, that from 

 thence it passed into those countries of Europe and elsewhere 

 where it has been found.' 



1918 July 1. 



