I collected in this tomb, forty-six bronze swords more or less fragmentary, also four lances and three long knives, of which I shall describe the most remarkable. One of the lances is represented under No. 441; like all the Mycenean lances, it has a tube, in which the wooden lance-shaft was fixed, but, as an exception, there is here a ring on either side, by which the lance-head was attached to the shaft by means of a cord, to prevent its being lost. As I have already stated, all Homeric lances seem to have had a similar tube, in which the shaft was fixed; on the outside of the tube of the lance we see the broad flat head of the nail with which the shaft was fastened.
No. 441.
A Lance-head of Bronze.
Sepulchre IV. Size 1:5, about.
Nos. 442, 442a.
Small one-edged Bronze Swords.
Sepulchre IV. Size 3:16, about.
WEAPONS OF BRONZE.