By the Rev. E. II. Goddard. 



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adhered to, the presence of liazors in the two barrows mentioned 

 above, if they were really associated with the primary interments, 

 would seem to assign these barrows to that later period of the 

 Bronze Age, interments of which have been hitherto sought in vain. 



Two othei- bronze blades which perhaps should be classed with 

 Eazors, call for notice. From the barrow on Eoundway Hill, in 

 company with the largest of the tanged flat daggers, of Period I., 

 comes the long awl-like tang and a small portion of the base of 

 what seems to have been a thin double-edged blade (No. 204). 

 What was the shape of this blade there is nothing to show. None 

 of the " liazors " have a narrow tang of this kind. The metal of 

 whicli this fragment is composed is of a very red colour, looks like 

 Copper, and doubtless is so, for the accompanying Dagger has been 

 proved to be of Copper, without any Tin. 



Another small blade (No. 203), from a barrow south of Eobin 

 Hood's Ball, on Salisbury Plain, measuring Ifin. x fin., has a 

 sliort tang pierced with a single rivet hole, and a small flat thin 

 blade. This is placed by Thurnam and Evans with the " Eazors," 

 together with a larger but very similar blade from Lady Low, in 

 Staffordshire. 



Single-edged (?) Knives are represented only by one fragment 

 from the downs near Avebury, of a bevelled blade which did not 

 belong to a Dagger (No. 205). 



The smallest of the bronze blades are those of the so-called 



"Lancets" (Nos. 206, 207), from the barrows at Manton and at 



! Normanton, liarrow 155, which produced such rich finds of gold 



ornaments. Those little blades, about Vm. in length, are set at 



(No. J<i7-^ "Lancet." Normanton I^ar. 155. 



right-an'j,it's in small haiidh's, in tlit' oiit^ case of amber lioiind with 

 gold lillcls, in tJic oilier (»!" wood oi- somo otlicr su])stam'c ontiicly 

 encased in a thin L;oltl cuNtT. No other examples of these little 

 implenieuLs are known. 



