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the North of Ireland figured in Evans's " Bronze Implements," fig. 384, p. 316, 

 also the one from Lough Gur, figured in my paper on " The Classification of 

 Spear-heads of the Bronze Age found in Ireland," Proe. E. I. A., vol. iii., T.S., 

 fig. 19, p. 496. In this paper I dealt fully with this type of spear-head, and 

 in summing up the evidence as regards its age, showed that in finds the 

 association of the leaf-shaped spear with objects of the Bronze Age, such as 

 cauldrons, leaf-shaped swords, horns, crotals, &c., was well marked. 



Professor Montelius, in his chronology of the British Bronze Age, places 

 this type of spear-head in his fifth period, dated at from the middle of the 

 twelfth to the end of the ninth century B.C., but this is perhaps somewhat 

 too early, and I should prefer to leave it at somewhere before 700 B.C. 



