closely to the lozenge-shaped, that Dr. Thurnam[1] is inclined to assign a connection with the class of tumuli known as long barrows; and in support of this view he has cited several cases of their discovery in this form of barrow, in which no barbed arrow-heads have hitherto been found. Some leaf-shaped arrow-heads were found in a long barrow at Walker's Hill, Wilts.[2]
Fig. 295.—Fyfield.
The annexed cut, kindly furnished by the Society of Antiquaries, shows an arrow-head from a long barrow near Fyfield, Wilts. It is delicately chipped, and weighs only forty-three grains. Another, 112 inches in length, from a long barrow on Alton Down, is of surprising thinness, and weighs only thirty grains. Others, it would seem purposely injured at the point, were found in the long chambered barrow at Rodmarton, Gloucestershire.[3] Others, again, were found by Mr. Bateman in long barrows in Derbyshire and Staffordshire. One of these, from Ringham Low, is 214 inches long and 1 inch broad, yet weighs less than forty-eight grains. In Long Low, Wetton,[4] were three such arrow-heads, and many flakes of flint. Dr. Thurnam, in speaking of the leaf-shaped as the long-barrow type of arrow-head, does not restrict it to that form of tumulus, but merely indicates it as that which is alone found there. The form indeed occurred elsewhere, thus, one was found in a bowl-shaped barrow at Ogbourne,[5] Wilts.
The Calais Wold barrow,[6] already mentioned as having produced four lozenge-shaped javelin and arrow heads, is circular, while that on Pistle Down, Dorsetshire,[7] which contained four beautifully-chipped arrow-heads of this type, is oblong.
Leaf-shaped arrow-heads are mentioned as having been found with burnt bones in Grub Low, Staffordshire.[8] The same forms, more or less carefully chipped, and occasionally almost flat on the face, are frequently found on the surface in various parts of Scotland,[9] especially in the counties of Aberdeen, Banff, Elgin, and Moray. One not of flint, but apparently of quartzite, was found near Glenluce,[10] Wigtownshire. Numbers have been found on the Culbin Sands,[11] and at Urquhart.[12] They are comparatively abundant in Yorkshire, Derbyshire, and Suffolk, but rarer in the southern counties of England. They- ↑ Proc. Soc. Ant., 2nd S., vol. iii, p. 170.
- ↑ A. C. Smith, "Ants. of N. Wilts," p. 182.
- ↑ Proc. Soc. Ant., 2nd S., vol. ii. p. 278; iii. p. 168.
- ↑ Reliquary, vol. v. p. 28.
- ↑ Wilts Arch. Mag., vol. xix. p. 71. A. C. Smith's "Ants. of N. Wilts," p. 197.
- ↑ Reliquary, vol. vi. p. 185.
- ↑ Warne's "Celtic Tum. of Dorset," Errata, pp. 15 and 27.
- ↑ "Ten Years' Dig.," p. 148.
- ↑ See Proc. Soc. Ant., 2nd S., vol. i. p. 20. Arch. Journ., vol. x. p. 362. Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., vol. iii. p. 362; iv. 54, 377, 553; v. 13, 185; vi. 41, 208, 234; vii. 500; viii. 10.
- ↑ P. S. A. S., vol. xiv. pp. 111, 129.
- ↑ P. S. A. S., vol. xxv. p. 499.
- ↑ P. S. A. S., vol. xix. p. 251.
