The same form has occurred in Ireland.[1286] A fine example (14 inches) from a hoard at Dowris, King’s County,[1287] is in the British Museum.
A spear-head of this type, about 8 inches long, is in the Boucher de Perthes Collection at Abbeville.
A spear-head smaller than Fig. 419, but of the same general character, is shown in Fig. 420. It was found in Burwell Fen, Cambridge, about 1869. There is a double bead along each side of the midrib, and the blade is in two steps or terraces. Around the crescent-shaped opening the beading is grained or milled transversely. A projection is carried down along the socket from the blade, so as to allow the rivet-hole to be made in it. The socket extends to within 1½ inches of the point.
Fig. 420.—Burwell Fen. ½
A spear-head of nearly the same size, with the openings somewhat smaller, but ornamented in a similar manner, was found with celts, palstaves, gouges, swords, scabbards, &c., at Guilsfield, Montgomeryshire,[1288] in 1862. Another, broken, was found at the same time. Another was in the hoard at Little Wenlock, Shropshire,[1289] but does not appear to have been ornamented. There was a fragment of another, plain, in the Broadward[1290] find.
In the Antiquarian Museum at Edinburgh are some spear-heads of this character, with the openings on the blade rather longer in proportion. One was found in the bottom of a cairn at Highfield, Urray, near Dingwall, Ross-shire.[1291] Others were found in Roxburghshire and Stirlingshire.
Some of the spear-heads of this type which have been found in Ireland are highly ornamented. A very fine specimen given by Wilde (Fig. 374) has several mouldings with a kind of cable pattern upon them. Others have circular perforations in addition to the lunate openings; and in one instance the socket is decorated with bands and vertical lines (Wilde, Fig. 372).
A small lance-head from Jelabugy, Russia,[1292] with comparatively large crescent-shaped openings in the blade, has been figured by Worsaae.
The cut for Fig. 421 is kindly lent me by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. The original, 19 inches long, was found with a bronze sword at Denhead, Cupar-Angus, Forfarshire,[1293] and has unfortunately been somewhat broken.