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they are bound by a cord. One from the north-west coast, thus mounted, is in the British Museum.

Professor Nilsson^[1] has engraved another American knife, in the same collection, but erroneously refers it to New Zealand.

A good specimen (61/2 inches) was found in 1890 in a field known as Little Wansford, near Great Weldon, Northamptonshire. I have specimens (61/4 inches) from Fiskerton, Lincolnshire, and from Bottisham Fen, Cambs (45/8 inches). There is a slight shoulder on the latter rather nearer the butt than the point. A beautiful specimen (63/4 inches) from a barrow at Garton,^[2] Yorkshire, E. R., has been figured.

Fig. 265.—Thames. 1/2		Fig. 266.—Burnt Fen.

The blade shown in Fig. 265 is in the British Museum, having been formerly in the Roach Smith Collection. It is of nearly black flint, and was found in the Thames. Its length is still 7 inches, but from the form of the point it seems possible that it may, as already suggested, originally have been even longer. There is in the Museum another specimen from the Thames,^[3] 53/4 inches long, in form like Fig. 264. Both of these have the edges towards the butt rendered more or less blunt, and have had any prominences removed by grinding. The same is the case with a blade 6 inches long and 23/8 inches wide, found

1. "Stone Age," p. 38, pl. iii. 65.
2. Arch., vol. xliii. p. 413.
3. "Hor. Fer.," pl. ii. 27.