Another was found with an interment at Rame[881] (Hautes Alpes) in company with other articles of bronze. It has six rivet-holes. A narrower blade and more of the rapier shape, with four rivet-holes, was found in the Marais de Donges[882] (Loire Inférieure).
A dagger much like Fig. 296, but with a double row of rivets, has been found at Mœrigen,[883] in the Lac de Bienne.
A dagger with a pointed blade having two parallel grooves just within each edge was found with other dagger blades, flat celts, flint arrow-heads, &c., in the tumulus of Kerhué-Bras, Finistère.[884] It has a plain wooden handle, to which the blade is attached by six rivets. The character of some of the other blades is peculiar.
A beautifully patinated dagger (7¼ inches) from the Seine at Paris, now in my own collection, has six rivet-holes at the base, as in Fig. 296, and is of nearly the same shape, though rather more sharply pointed. One of the rivets which remains is ⅝ inch long. The blade has upon it a small low rib on either side running parallel with the edge. On the inner side of the rib there is a groove, on the outer side the blade is flat. The edge itself is fluted.
I have a small thin blade (4⅝ inches), like Fig. 298, found in the Palatinate, which has four rivet-holes at the base. There is a band of five parallel lines running along each edge, and in the centre of the blade a chevron with the sides slightly curved inwards formed of two similar bands. The lines seem to have been punched in. The mark left by the hilt is like that on Fig. 296.
What appear to be knife-daggers, some of them with notches at the side for the reception of rivets, have been found with interments in Spain, and have been described by Don Gongora y Martinez[885] as lance-heads.
Knife-daggers of much the same character as the English have occasionally been found in Scotland.
That shown in Fig. 298 was found in a stone cist in a cairn at Cleigh,[886] Loch Nell, Argyleshire. Along the margin of the original handle is a line of small indentations made with a pointed punch.
