One of nearly the same character (22¼ inches), found in the Thames at Datchet, forms part of the Roach Smith Collection,[1265] now in the British Museum. Another (11½ inches) was found with palstaves at Sherford,[1266] near Taunton.
A specimen in the British Museum (15¾ inches) has an ornament of hatched chevrons round the base of the socket, and the lozenge-shaped flanges are also ornamented with hatched open mascles.
A spear-head of the same form (15½ inches) from Ireland[1267] has the ridge decorated with lines of dots, and the socket with bands and a chevron pattern. A plain specimen, no less than 26¾ inches long, found at Maghera, Co. Londonderry,[1268] has been figured by Wilde.
In others the midrib is conical, and the blade nearly flat, or with only a shallow channel along the sides of the midrib. One such from the find at Nettleham, Lincolnshire,[1269] now in the British Museum, is, by the kindness of Mr. Franks, shown in Fig. 410. I have one nearly similar (9½ inches) from Edmonton Marsh. One (7½ inches) from the Thames at Lambeth is in the British Museum, as are others from the same river varying in length from 9 to 15¾ inches.
One from Speen, Berks[1270] (7 inches), is of the same character, as is one (8¼ inches) from Crawford, Lanarkshire.[1271] Another (9 inches) from Horsey, near Peterborough, Hunts, has been engraved by Artis.[1272] Another (10½ inches) from the Severn at Kempsey, Worcestershire,[1273] appears to have been of this type. I have seen others from the Cambridge Fens. One (5½ inches) from Edington Burtle, Somerset, is in the Taunton Museum.
Fig. 411.—Knockans. ½
A spear-head of this character (10½ inches), with the faces of the loops lozenge-shaped, was found with two looped palstaves and a chisel (Fig. 197) at Broxton, about twelve miles south of Chester. It is now in the collection of Sir P. de M. G. Egerton, Bart., who has kindly shown it to me.
Spear-heads of this character are occasionally found in Scotland. Two from Wigtonshire[1274] have been figured.
The form is common in Ireland. I have one 12 inches long from one of the northern counties.