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A RARE TYPE OF BRONZE-AGE WEAPON 

 FROM LINCOLNSHIRE. 



T. SHEPPARD, M.Sc, F.G.S. 



The specimen figured herewith (page 282) is a socketed dagger, 

 an unusual type of Bronze-age weapon, which has recently 

 been found in north Lincolnshire. It is now in the Municipal 

 Museum in Hull, which previously contained nothing quite 

 of this type, nor is there one in the Museum at Driffield. The 

 specimen is 6|" in length, f " across the blade, i£" wide across 

 the mouth of the oval socket, which measures 1" X §" inside, 

 the socket being if" in depth. 



As will be seen from the illustration the dagger has a straight 

 and double-edged blade. Sir John Evans, in his book on 

 ' Ancient Bronze Implements, etc., in Great Britain,' shows a 

 somewhat similar example (fig. 240), 5§" long, found with a 

 hoard of socketed celts, etc., near Worthing. He also figures 

 another example (fig. 241) found with a hoard near Burwell. 

 From the well-known Heathery-Burn Cave in Durham, is 

 figured still another example (fig. 242), and he states this 

 ' presents the remarkable feature of having upon each face of 

 the socket six small projecting bosses simulating rivet heads.' 

 Usually the shaft of these daggers is bored for the reception of 

 a rivet. On each side of the North Lincolnshire example are 

 two projections, resembling the heads of rivets, but they are 

 merely ornamental, and the shaft is not pierced for the rivets. 

 Of course, these may have served as knobs to assist in secure 

 shafting. 



These socketed daggers are very scarce in Great Britain, 

 though more abundant in Ireland. They have been recorded 

 for Glamorgan, Anglesea, Denbighshire, Cornwall, Dorset, 

 Kent's Cavern (Torquay), the Thames, and Suffolk, in addition 

 to the localities already mentioned. A plaster cast of this 

 specimen has been sent to the Scunthorpe Museum. 



MORE BRONZE-AGE RELICS FROM SCARBORO' 



T. SHEPPARD, M.Sc, F.G.S. 



Referring to the notes in The Naturalist for May, relating 

 to the hoard of bronze implements found at Scarborough, 

 there has been a discussion in the Scarborough press in reference 

 to the specimens coming to Hull. This has had a somewhat 

 unexpected result. A reader of the paper, who had found a 

 very fine axe, and also a large mass of bronze, seemed to think 

 that these specimens should be preserved at Hull, with the 



1917 Sept. 1. 



