398 Bronze Age Weapons in the Scarborough Museum. 



found at Garrowby Wold, accompanying a Bronze- Age burial, 

 and is figured in Mortimer's ' Forty Years Researches,' fig. 

 391. The British Museum possesses a blade even more like 

 the Gristhorpc example, which, accompanied by a bone 

 pommel, was foimd in a barrow at Helperthorpe in the East 

 Riding. It is figured on page f>2) iri the ' Guide to the An- 

 tiquities of the Bronze Age,' second edition, 1920. In this 

 case, as with the Gristhorpe example, two rivets were used for 

 fastening the blade to the handle. A very similar pommel to 

 the Gristhorpe example, with two rivet holes, from Garton, 

 E. Yorks., is illustrated by Evans, torn. cit. (fig. 282). 



(15a) This remarkably well preserved pommel is evidently 

 made from a bone of a cetacean, a fact pointed out by Dr. 

 Smith Woodward, of the British Museum of Natural History, 

 to whom I submitted the specimen, and indicates that 

 probably a stranded whale on the beach provided Bronze Age 

 man with material for his dagger handles. Owing to the 

 treatment given b}' Williamson, the specimen is almost in as 

 good condition as when new, and shows the file-like marks 

 and method of construction quite well. It is 2" by |" across ; 

 the bottom being smooth and polished, and gradually con- 

 tracts cone-wise to an oval i|" by V , the pommel being |" 

 deep. 



It is interesting to observe the way in which the hollow 

 for the reception of the handle has been made in this pommel. 

 It has been bored out by a drill about j-V" ^^ diameter, which 

 has been inserted in no fewer than 15 different places (two of 

 which have evidently gone almost to the bottom) which then 

 enabled the central hollow, measuring |" by \" by %" deep, to 

 be chipped out. Three holes were drilled through each side to 

 enable the centre piece to be firmly attached to the handle. 

 These are rather larger than the drill warranted, and are con- 

 sequently irregular in shape, as the smaller drill had evidently 

 also to prepare these larger rivet holes. The circular holes 

 distinctly exhibit numerous miniature rings as a result of the 

 drilling. 



(16) This spear-head has been broken in two, and at some 

 comparatively recent period, probably since it came into the 

 Society's possession, the two halves have been soldered 

 together, a process which has rather shortened the spear-head 

 and interfered with its lines, in addition to which one of the 

 rivet holes is made to appear too near its neighbour, instead of 

 being opposite. Otherwise the specimen is a well-made 

 socketed spear-head of lanceolate form, and from the old label 

 inserted in the socket, it is evidently 'from the Wolds.' The 

 spear is based upon a large conical socket for the shaft, 4I" 

 in length, on the sides of which, for a length of 3J", are two 

 rsmall knife-like projections forming ihc^ spear. These are not 



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