One, 5 inches long, from the Thames, is in the British Museum. It has a small ridge or bead along the mid-feather. The loops have a diamond engraved or punched upon them.
In one from Beckhampton, Wilts[1241] (4¾ inches), the side loops do not appear to be flattened.
The form is of not unfrequent occurrence in Ireland, though perhaps that with the raised ribs on the blade, like Fig. 397, is more common.
In one instance (13½ inches)[1242] the loops upon the socket are not opposite each other, though, as usual, in the same plane as the blade.
A small specimen (5¼ inches) from Fairholme, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire, is in the British Museum.
A small example of this type (about 3½ inches) is in the collection formed by Sir R. Colt Hoare at Stourhead, and now at Devizes, and in the same case with the dagger blades. It has been figured by the late Dr. Thurnam[1243] in his valuable memoir in the Archæologia, and is thought by him to have been found in a grave with burnt bones in one of the Wilsford barrows near Stonehenge.
There is a diminutive variety of this class of weapon with two loops, in which the blade is extremely narrow, like that from Lakenheath shown in Fig. 395. I have another, 4⅞ inches, with even a smaller and shorter blade, from Cumberland.
Canon Greenwell has one only 3 inches long, found near Nottingham. It has three parallel grooves round the socket mouth. One, 4¼ inches, from Ashdown, Berks, is in the British Museum.
A fragment of another of very small dimensions was found at Farley Heath, Surrey, and is now in the British Museum.
A lance-head with a more leaf-shaped blade (6¼ inches) is said to have been found in a tumulus at Craigton, near Kinross.[1244]