100 Notes on Iinplements of the Bronze Age found in Wiltshire. 



narrowing to a sharp point, with engraved lines following the 

 outline. 



Dr. Montelius appears to regard the small triangular pointed 

 Knife Daggers, such as that from Wilsford, here figured, with fiat 

 plain blades, and two or three rivets, and 2in. or Sin. in length, as 

 amongst the earliest of the Bronze Daggers, after the tanged 

 examples. They are more frequently found than the larger blades, 

 however, and it seems difficult to limit them to the earlier period. 



Wilsford Barrow i6. (No. 6j). 



A remarkable blade from (No. 93) Winterbourne Bassett (Plate 

 IV., Fig. 3), found probably by flint-diggers many years ago, and 

 not from a barrow, does not seem to belong to any of the classes 

 of Daggers mentioned already as found in the barrows, or to that 

 later class which still remains to be dealt with. It is a narrow 

 straight-sided blade 7^in. long, with a midrib down its whole length 

 and three rivets arranged in a way which suggests a likeness to 

 some continental weapons found in the Swiss Lake Dwellings and 

 elsewhere, rather than to any of the recognised types of Dagger 

 found in Britain. N"o other example at all like it has occurred 

 in the county. 



Leaving this abnormal Dagger out of the reckoning, Wiltshire,, 

 with its ninety-one Daggers and Knife-Daggers of the three earlier 

 periods, has but one leaf-shaped Sword and four Eapier or leaf- 

 shaped Daggers of the later periods, to show — a sufficiently re- 

 markable contrast, when the number of these later weapons found 

 elsewhere in England is considered. 



The one and only sword (No. 99) 24in. long x IJin. wide, with 

 six rivet holes at the base of the blade, and two in the hilt plate^ 

 is now in the Ashmolean Museum,^ having been ploughed up in 



^ For details as to this and other objects in the Ashmolean I am indebted 

 to Mr. E. Thurlow Leeds, of that Museum. 



