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from their shape, it is safe to conclude, were knives They certainly could 

 not be put to any other use, least of all, made available as arrowheads, 

 and it is improbable, considering this, that the more inconveniently shaped 

 leaf-form was used solely as a cutting tool. For these reasons, we have no 

 hesitation in classifying the six specimens in question, and also Fig. 3, Plate 

 I, as arrowheads. This form occurs of greater proportionate width than is 

 shown in any of these, but none are more slender and delicate in the chip- 

 ping than Fig. 15. It has been suggested that the arrowpoints with convex 

 bases were intended to remain in a wound when made, those with concave 

 bases to remain on the shaft; but this theory can hardly be considered ad- 

 missible, as arrow-points with convex bases are in the Museum so firmly 

 attached to the shaft as to require considerable force to detach them. 



Figs. 1 and 2, Plate I, the one by reason of its size, the other from the 

 peculiarly broad base and traces of asphaltum still adhering to it, give us 

 instances of one form of implement merging into another. Fig. 1, Plate I, 

 represents an admirably chipped leaf-shaped specimen, originally three and 

 one-half inches in length, by one and one-fourth in greatest breadth. The 

 base is not as distinctly curved as usual, but prolonged so as to form a broad 

 stem ; still the outline is not sufficiently varied from the typical leaf-shaped 

 form to class it otherwise. This specimen seems much too large for an 

 arrowpoint, but if the size is not objectionable the weight would not be. 

 It bears a marked resemblance in both shape, size, and finish to European 

 specimens, designated by some as "daggers," and again as "javelin heads."* 



Fig. 2, Plate I, is within the limit, as to length, of arrowheads proper, 

 but the base is very thick, and of uniform width for nearly one-half its 

 length, a feature foreign to the ordinaiy forms. This peculiarity of the base 

 may have been a distinction made by the ancient flint-worker ; when de- 

 signed for a cutting tool it was much stouter and more distinctly oval in 

 section than specimens of the same outline intended for arrowpoints. A 

 second specimen, from same locality, is somewhat smaller, of a reddish- 

 brown flint, but not so delicately chipped as the preceding. 



Fig. 1, Plate III, is a well-marked example of the common stemmed 

 arrowpoint, but is not as finely chipped and as slim as the majority of the 



'Ancient Stone Implements of Great Britain, p. 312 and p. 331, figs. 264 and 274. 



