The discovery of other leaf-shaped spear-heads with rivet-holes through the sockets is recorded to have been made at the following places, and many others might no doubt be added to the list: the Thames, near Battersea[1226] (16¾ inches); near Wallingford[1227] (7¼ inches); and Kingston[1228] (6½ and 7-6/10 inches); two (7¾ inches and 6 inches) were found near Toddington, Beds;[1229] at Beacon Hill, Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire,[1230] two (7½ inches and 6½ inches) were found with a socketed celt and gouge. Others were discovered near Yarlet, Staffordshire;[1231] near Alnwick Castle[1232] (sixteen with celts and swords); Vronheulog, Merionethshire;[1233] and Longy Common, Alderney[1234] (one with blade ornamented).
The spear-heads of the second of the classes into which they are here divided are those with loops at the side of the projecting socket. These loops are usually more elongated than those on socketed celts and palstaves, though they probably served a similar purpose, that of securing the metallic head to the wooden handle. The metal of which the loops are formed has frequently been flattened by hammering, so as to reduce the projection of the loops beyond the socket; the flattened part is often wrought into a lozenge form.
The strings which passed through these loops were probably secured to some stop or collar on the shaft, and may have been arranged in some chevron-like pattern with which these lozenges coincided. There are usually no rivet-holes in the spear-heads of this class.
A specimen exhibiting these lozenges, and with the blade of nearly the same form as those of the spear-heads of the first class, is shown in Fig. 394. The upper part of the midrib containing the socket is ridged, so that the section near the point is almost square. The socket is slightly fluted round the mouth. The original was found at Thetford, Suffolk.
A spear-head of the same type, but with only a single large loop, found in Glen Kenns, Galloway, is engraved in the Archæologia,[1235] but it seems probable that the figure is somewhat inaccurate.
Another (5½ inches) with two loops was found at Hangleton Down, Sussex.[1236] Another (5¼ inches), rather more elongated than Fig. 394, was found at Trefeglwys, Montgomeryshire.[1237] Another from Shirewood Forest is engraved in the Archæologia.[1238] It has a slightly ogival outline on each side, a peculiarity I have noticed in other specimens. An example given in the same plate seems to have lost the flat part of the blade.
I have one (6¼ inches) from Fyfield, near Abingdon.
Mr. M. Fisher has a specimen from the Fens at Ely (5⅜ inches), with the midrib ridged like Fig. 396.
One from Hagbourn Hill, near Chiltern, Berks,[1239] is reported to have been found with a socketed celt, a pin like Fig. 458, and another like Fig. 453, together with a bronze bridle-bit, and some portions of buckles like those of the late Celtic Period. These are now in the British Museum. A few coins of gold and silver are said to have been found at the same time.
One (6 inches) was found at Chartham, near Canterbury.[1240]