[ [120] Towards the north the author subsequently found a "plank with several Roman nails in it; and the number of loose nails found in the soil above it showed that they must probably have belonged to some wooden superstructure which had perished."
[ [121] Evans, "An. Br. Implements," p. 436.
[ [122] Proc. R. I. A., vol. ix. p. 176; and vol. i., 2nd Ser., p. 223.
[ [123] See translation of O. S., edited by Dr. Joseph Anderson, p. 182; also Proc. S. A. Scot., vol. viii.
[ [124] Antiqua, 1883, p. 15.
[ [125] Matériaux, etc., vol. xvi. p. 215.
[ [126] Bulletino Palet. It., An. i. p. 7.
[ [127] While visiting Mr. Flinders Petrie's collection of antiquities from Egypt lately exhibited in London, I was much interested in seeing a well-shaped wooden sickle with a groove in which a flint saw was still cemented in its place. The groove is adapted for three such saws, but only one remained in its place. The wooden portion of this unique instrument is shaped like a modern corn-hook, with the exception that the handle turns downwards at a right angle to the cutting plane, and the opposite end runs out into a long sharp point. It measures 12½ inches from tip to tip, and 17 from the point to the most bulging part of the body. From the same place were various other flint implements and some semilunar knives or saws, precisely similar to those so common in the Scandinavian archæological area. Mr. Petrie also pointed out some flint objects which were undoubtedly an imitation of implements of copper and bronze with which they were associated. The tombs of Hawara in which these relics were discovered are said to be of the 12th dynasty, dating some 2,600 years B.C.
[ [128] B. 423, pp. 80, 90; Bul. Palet. Ital., An. xii. p. 80.
[ [129] Archiv für Anthropologie, vol. xvi.