Fig. 166.—Stone Arrow-head fixed on the Shaft by means of Bitumen.
Sometimes they were merely attached to the shaft by a ligature of string (fig. 167).
Fig. 167.—Arrow-head fixed on the Shaft by a Ligature of String.
A few relics have been discovered of the bows which were used to impel these arrows. They were made of yew, and roughly cut.
Tools and instruments of bone seem, like those made of flint, to have been much in use. In addition to the arrow-heads which we have just mentioned, there have also been found piercers, or bodkins of various shapes (figs. 168 and 169), chisels for working in wood (fig. 170), pins with lenticular heads (fig. 171), needles perforated sometimes with one eye and sometimes with two, and occasionally hollowed out round the top in a circular groove, so as to attach the thread.
Figs. 168, 169, 170 and 171 are given by M. Desor in his 'Mémoire sur les Palafittes.'