506 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Acadetny. 



I have not been able to obtain the figures for the Irish spear-heads 

 in the British Museum. The localities in many instances are not 

 recorded, and it does not appear possible to separate the Irish from the 

 English and Scotch examples. 



Summarising the preceding figures, we get the following totals : — 



Total. 



Looped (Class II.), .310 



Transitional (Class III.), . . . . .53 

 "With apertures in blade (Class IV.), . . .18 

 With segmental openings, and, generally, rivet- 

 holes in socket (Class IV.), . . . .18 

 Leaf-shaped (Class I.), ..... 196 



595 



The transitional looped type seems to have been speedily super- 

 ceded by the riveted leaf-shaped form, and has left us comparately few 

 specimens. The form with apertures in the blade may be transitional 

 or a "by-product" of the transitional period, and is likewise sparingly 

 represented in our collections. 



Moulds. — The evidence of the spear -head moulds further enforces 

 the separation of types insisted on in the present Paper. Evans illus- 

 trates two, and mentions in all seven Irish stone moulds for spear-heads, 

 (Lacluding those in Wilde's Catalogue), six of which are of the looped 

 type. The remaining one is for leaf-shaped lance-heads, and is now in 

 the Museum at Edinburgh. In addition Evans mentions three Scotch 

 examples (two looped and one leaf-shaped), and one Welsh, looped. 

 Thus of eleven moulds known to Evans, nine are for the looped spear- 

 heads. In addition to those mentioned by Evans, the Academy 

 possesses one other mould, also looped. One English example is 

 known: a mould for a leaf-shaped spear-head (18 inches) with 

 loops on the socket, found in Cumberland.^ But not only are the 

 leaf -shaped moulds few, but, as far as I am aware, no characteristic 

 example has been found. The three moulds referred to of this type 

 are for small spear-heads, and insignificant when placed beside the 

 fine example of the looped type. 



Two stone moulds for rapier blades were found at Knightly in 

 England (Evans, 434) ; and a well-shaped mould for a dagger-blade 

 has been figured from Broughshane in Ireland (Evans, 433). Evans 



1 Proc. S.A.S., 1883-4, p. 103. 



