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but where there is one spear or arrow-head found, there is 
certainly a hundred beaks or knobs. 
HAND-FIGHTING STONES. 
Another weapon, which is not generally known, was 
pointed out to me by Mr. Edward Tindall, of Bridlington. 
It was used for holding in the hand to strike with. The one 
he showed to me was a native flint, with a long projecting 
point and an uneven head, which the fingers could fit over 
to tighten the grasp. 
I have since found many different varieties of these 
fighting stones, cut expressly for the purpose — round ones 
with a pointed end ; and flat flints, pointed ; and others with 
a jagged edge ; and long, round pieces of flint, pointed at 
one end ; and some very rough nodules of flint, with the 
natural projections pointed. This weapon was in much 
esteem, I have no doubt, as it is constantly found with other 
weapons.* 
HATCHETS. 
Flint hatchets were very commonly used as weapons, when 
they were made small for the purpose ; but I have never 
found large hatchets where there had been fighting, and the 
small hatchets are not carefully sharpened, so that it appears 
with this weapon, as with others which I have mentioned, the 
ancient Britons trusted more to the force of their blow upon 
the bare head, than to the keenness of the cutting edge. 
THE DAGGER. 
The dagger appears to have been a well-known weapon ; 
but I should judge that it was a late invention, as those 
which I have found are exceedingly well cut — some about 
* A bas-relief in Athens represents a fight with the Amazons, with hand- 
stones; and on Trajan’s column, at Rome, the Roman Legions are represented 
as attacking an enemy who are defending themselves with hand-stones. 
