Of Scottish specimens the following may be noticed: one from Lanark[1195] (5¾ inches), which has been figured; two (7¾ inches) rather long in the socket, found with a bronze sword and a long pin on the Point of Sleat,[1196] Isle of Skye; one (6 inches) from Balmaclellan,[1197] New Galloway. One (5⅛ inches) from Duddingston Loch, Edinburgh, is in the British Museum.
Leaf-shaped spear-heads such as Fig. 382 are of frequent occurrence in various parts of France. A number were found at Alise Ste. Reine[1198] (Côte d’Or), several of them ornamented with rings round the sockets.
They also are found in the Lake-dwellings of Switzerland[1199] and Savoy. Many of them have parallel rings round the mouth of the socket by way of ornament. They also occur in Germany[1200] and Denmark.[1201] One from Northern Germany, still containing a part of its wooden shaft, has been engraved by Von Estorff.[1202]
Those from Italy and Greece have very frequently facets running along the midrib which contains the socket.
Fig. 384.
North of Ireland. ½
In Fig. 383 is shown a variety (11½ inches) with a projecting fillet running down to the rivet-holes as in Fig. 381, which, however, in this case forms the termination of small beads running along the sides of the central rib. There is also a beading running along the midrib. The original was found, with another spear-head, plain, a socketed celt, some bronze rings, and fragments of tin, at Achtertyre,[1203] Morayshire. Mr. R. Day, F.S.A., has a nearly similar spear-head (5 inches), found in Dublin.
A more elongated form, with the projecting part of the socket considerably shorter, is shown in Fig. 384, from a specimen found in the North of Ireland. A spear-head (20 inches) of the same form of outline, but with a slight ridge running the whole length of the socket from its mouth to the point, was found at Ditton,[1204] Surrey. It is now in the British Museum, having been presented by the Earl of Lovelace.
Another (14⅝ inches) in the same collection, found in the River Thames,[1205] near the mouth of the Wandle, retains a portion of the original wood in its socket. It was found in company with a bronze sword, a palstave, and a long pin (Fig. 454).