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examples from Brigmerston (No. 189) and Wiiiterbourne Basset 

 (No. 190, Plate V., Fig. 1), the loops have become " protected," 

 that is, they are included in the general outline of the blade, and 

 have the lozenge-shaped coverings at right angles to the plane of 

 the blade, which were liammered out after the casting of the blade. 

 The former of these, that from l>rigmerston, now in the British 

 Museum, is remarkable for the very rare feature of a band of 

 engraved chevron and horizontal line ornament round the base of 

 the socket. 



Of the latest type, where the loops have degenerated into lunate 

 openings in the blade, a single fragment of a Idade from Brig- 

 merston (No. 192) is in the British Museum: whilst of the simple 

 leaf-shaped head, without loops at all, and a riveted socket, which 

 continued in use down to the end of the Bronze Age, only one 

 example also is known, that from Wootton Bassett (No. 188), now 

 at Devizes (Plate IV., Fig. 4). This rarity of the later forms of 

 Spearhead which occur so frequently elsewhere in the founders' 

 hoards and casual finds, is of a piece with the curious scarcity or 

 absence in Wilts of so many of the typical implements and weapons 

 of Period V., which has already been remarked. 



There remains to be noticed the curious specimen (No. 195), 

 said to have been ploughed up at Battlesbury Camp, near War- 

 minster, and now in the Blackmore Museum (Plate YL, Fig. 5). 

 It is of a yellow brassy colour unpatinated. It has a short broad 

 flat blade bevelled at the edge and rounded at the point, a promi- 

 nent rounded midrib, and a long socket with a beaded rim at the 



j base and a collar Imll'-way u]) it. I can find nothing at all like it 

 in lu'ans, or in any museum. As Dr. lilackmore regards it as 



. anti(|ue, 1 Iuiao thoui-ht it best to li^urc it hero, thou<di I myself 

 have grave doulits as to its auliiiuity. 



. Of [\n' cyliiidrical olijocls with jdcjocling spila's, known as 

 "Mace Heads," the l)ritisli Mus.'uni has a sjummiiumi (No. 178), 

 with tw(^ rows of spikes, '-s.iid to lia\(' biM'ii fduiid in a well" at 

 Groat i'xMlwyii. This is l!io laily exaiiiph' whirh has cccurit'tl in 

 the county. Sii .h.hn l']\aiis (h'os not ro-anl t ln'S(> objects as of 

 the Ih'on/.e \'j-(\ ihouudi ihcN' are coiinnoiih- classed as sucii. 



