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and working-places of artificers and potters any arms 

 would be met with ; yet a small but very interesting series 

 has come to light. These were all found in or near the 

 houses. In one case, a spear-head, of a peculiar shape, was 

 lying close to two carpenters' chisels. Hence I conclude 

 that it belonged to their owner, I have already referred 

 to these chisels as being of a later date than the others 

 obtained, and this spear-head must also be of a similar age. 

 From the number of bones of wild animals, specially deer, 

 scattered throughout the excavations, it may be presumed 

 that these weapons were kept chiefly for use in hunting. 

 They are as follows :— 



1. Two narrow, heavy, unbarbed, spear-heads of iron. 

 The most recent of these has a deep socket of a peculiar 

 shape, resembling a deep longitudinal groove at the head. 

 It is broken across at this point, otherwise the flanges of 

 the socket would probably be found to meet further away 

 from the blade, and thus obtain a firmer hold of the handle. 

 The other spear-head is broken off shorter at the head, 

 otherwise it appears to have had a similar socket. Three 

 other iron articles which have been found seem to be parts 

 of spear-heads resembling these two in shape. (See illus- 

 tration.) 



2. A much lighter unbarbed spear-head of iron, broken 

 off at the stem. It is broader in the blade than those above- 

 mentioned, and evidently had two cutting edges. (See 

 illustration.) 



3. An iron javelin-head of the conventional type. (See 

 illustration.) 



4. I include next, but very doubtfully, two pieces of 

 iron which seem to have been parts of two daggers or 

 dagger-like knives. The fragments are too small and 

 worn to enable me to feel any sort of confidence in this 

 identification, and I merely include these articles here 

 because I cannot see what other use could be made of 

 them. 



5. An iron kris, broken across near the handle, has 

 already been mentioned as having been procured with other 

 iron articles in one of the houses. The blade is now 

 inches long and one inch wide at the top. It has the 

 bends peculiar to this weapon. 



