98 Notes on Implements of the Bronze Age found in Wiltshire. 



blade from an unknown locality, probably in Wiltshire (No. 6). 



The Ashmolean has two important examples from Winterslow 



— one with a rounded, the other with 



a sharp point (Nos. 4 and 5) ; and the 



^ , rr T r^ r ^ Brltisli Museum one from a barrow 



1 angea Knife Dag'g-er or Copper. i 



Mere Down Barrow (No. i). i near Lake (No. 3). In all probabihty 

 these flat tanged Daggers are, as Montelius asserts, of Copper, as 

 Nos. 1 and 2 have recently (June, 1911) been analysed by Dr. 

 W. Gowland and have been found to have no admixture of Tin. 

 This fact is of considerable importance, as up to the present time 

 no Copper implements have been known to exist in England. A 

 " Copper Age " seems to be thus established for England as well 

 as for the Continent. 



Of the broad flat-bladed riveted Daggers or Knife Daggers with 

 rounded points, which are assigned to Period II., a fine example 

 from a barrow at Brigmerston (No. 7), with nine rivets in the blade 

 and twenty-two in the handle, is at Devizes. Others with three 



i 



Flat-bladed Dag-ger from Brlg-merston (No. 9). ^ 



and five large rivets respectively, from barrows at Syrencot (No. 9), 

 and Homington (No. 10), are in the British Museum. Perhaps to 

 an early part of this period (II.) should be assigned tlie remarkable 

 Dagger from Normanton Bush Barrow (No. 11), with a broad flat 

 pointed blade lOfin. in length, six small rivets, and a very small tang. 



Dagger from Normanton Bush Barrow, (No. ii). ^ 



It is of a type which is known in Brittany, but of which no other 



