394 J. Wood-Mason — The Prehistoric Antiquities of Banchi. [N'o. 4, 



breadth by 7 to 11 in length only, with a straight cutting edge and a 

 finely chipped arched blunt ' back.' It occurs in chert, chalcedony, and 

 quartz. It is possible that it may be a short and broad form of the chisel- 

 edged type intended to be attached to its shaft by means of some resinous 

 substance only, and that it may be the stone prototype of the iron-headed 

 arrow of similar shape which is referred to by Mr. Evans on p. 353 of 

 his book on the ancient stone implements of Great Britain. 



That all the arrow-heads were made on the spot where they have 

 been found seems to be satisfactorily proved by flakes, cores, and raw 

 materials for manufacture occurring in profusion with them. 



The form and relations of the cores, flakes, and arrow-heads suggest 

 the view that the last-named were first sketched out, so to speak, by 

 flaking on the nuclei, then struck off, and finally notched or otherwise 

 worked. 



The chert core represented in Fig. 8 of PI. IV partially illustrates 

 this. Fig. 9 is a chert core from which some of the thin band-shaped 

 flakes that are so abundant at Ranchi have been struck. Cores of quarts 

 crystals and rock crystal also occur. 



I class all the worked specimens as notched rather than as * tanged ' 

 arrow-heads, because there has been no attempt to adapt the flakes for 

 insertion in a cleft of the shaft by reducing their original thickness 

 at the butt, and because there is always a more or less distinct * neck * 

 between the butt- end and the blade ; though I do not insist that none of 

 them were let to some extent into the shaft. 



All the arrows (except 7 and 10 of Pis. IV and V) are flakes and 

 they present two faces, a flat or inner or core face, with a more or less 

 evident bulb of percussion, and a flaked outer face. They may be called 

 flake-arrows. The simplest of them closely resemble the obsidian 

 flake arrow-heads of modern savages. 



The following are the measurements of the arrows-heads and 

 cores : — 



PI. IV. 



ig.l. 



Length, 38, breadth 16, 



thickness 8*5 r 



2. 



Length, tip 

 restored, 26 







without tip 20*4., breadth 12*2, 



thickness 4 



3. 



Length, 43, breadth 24-5, 



thickness 10*8 



4. 



Length, 21-4, breadth 16, 



thickness 7-7 



5. 



Length, tip 

 restored, 26-3 







without tip 23-6, breadth 21-5, 



thickness 68 



6. 



Length, tip 

 restored, 28*0, 







without tip 26-7, breadth 15*0 



thickness 5*7 



