By the Eev. E. H. Goddard. 97 



himself expresses in the later portion of his work; and I have so 

 entered in the list all that are mentioned in Ancient Wilts. There 

 is no evidence that any one of them was really a Spear head. 



Many of the smaller Knife Daggers were apparently never pre- 

 served at all, others were never labelled, or have lost their labels, 

 and are now only noted in the Stourhead Catcdogue as from an " un- 

 known locality/' though the strong probability is that they are 

 most of them from Wiltshire barrows. 



These Daggers and Knife Daggers, of various shapes and sizes, 

 are by far the conmionest of all the bronze objects found in barrows 

 in Great Britain, with the exception, perhaps, of the small Awls, 

 but in no other county have so many or such fine examples been 

 found as in Wiltshire, and no museum in England possesses so 

 large a series as our own Museum at Devizes. 



Beckoning the bronze blades recorded by Hoare and others as 

 " Lance Heads," as in reality riveted Daggers or Knife Daggers, 

 but excluding "Eazors" and "Lancets," I find that the number of 

 these blades recorded from the county reaches a total of ninety-one, 

 of which thirty-seven are at Devizes, fifteen in the British Museum, 

 three at the Blackmore Museum, two at the Ashmolean, and four 

 in private hands ; leaving thirty which cannot now be traced.^ 



Of the tanged Hat-bladed Daggers, generally with a rounded 

 point, and associated with drinking cups and other objects of the 

 earliest age of bronze, Devizes possesses three, that from the 

 bariow at Eoundway with a broad blade lOin. in length (No. 2), 

 another from Mere Down (No. 1),- and a third and much smaller 



'lang^ed Uaggei" of Copper. Roundway (No. z). 



' A8 stated above there are ten small Knife Da^/^'crs in the Stourhoad 

 Collection, nnlalx^lled, wliicji an* doubtless to he identitieil with many of 

 the "small brass laiici heads" mentioned in Anrirnt U'ilfs. 



• The niunhers r< icr to the list of Bronze Oiijects at the vud oi this pai>cr. 

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