A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE 
makers, owing to their being thrown and shot about in all directions. 
They are often found as isolated examples long distances from camps. 
The larger examples are termed spear-, lance- or javelin-heads; three 
are illustrated in fig. 54; those marked a and B are from Maiden 
Bower, Dunstable ; c is from Waulud’s Bank, Luton. 
It is probable that all the recognized forms of arrow-head occur in 
Bedfordshire. In fig. 55 four tanged examples are illustrated from 
Leagrave and Dunstable Downs. 
Two sub-triangular specimens are shown in fig. 56; a is from Cad- 
dington, B from Leagrave, Luton. 
Three examples of the leaf-shaped class are illustrated in fig. 57, 
all from Maiden Bower, Dunstable. 
A bracer or wrist-guard of stone, made for the protection of the 
arm of the bowman against the blow of the string in shooting, has 
been found at Sandy, and is now in the collection of Sir John Evans. 
Fabricators and flaking tools are the last to be mentioned. They 
may have been used as punches, flakers or rubbers, and in some 
instances perhaps as strike-lights. Whatever these tools may have 
been designed for they are common in Bedfordshire, especially in 
camps. Sometimes they are very long, at other times shorter ; some- 
times the ends are comparatively sharp, at other times they are very 
blunt and abraded. 
Three examples are illustrated in fig. 58 ; the first is from Maiden 
Bower, Dunstable, with ends very much abraded as if from constant 
striking on a pebble or block of iron pyrites for the production of 
fire; the next is from Dunstable Downs, and is comparatively sharp 
although attenuated. Other much more elongated examples occur. The 
third is from Mount Pleasant, Kensworth, and is unusually stumpy in 
form, but undoubtedly of the flaking or fabricating class. 
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