[573] J. Evans, Anc. Bronze Implements, pp. 194, 197-200, 202; J. Anderson, Scotland in Pagan Times,—the Bronze and Stone Ages, p. 202; Proc. Soc. Ant., 2nd ser., xv, 1893-5, pp. 358-60.
[574] J. Evans, Anc. Bronze Implements, pp. 204, 222-4.
[575] Ib., pp. 257-60, 473, 480; Archaeologia, xxxvi, 1855, pp. 326-31.
[576] J. Evans, Anc. Bronze Implements, pp. 261-2, 265, 269-70.
[577] Ib., pp. 248-9, 256, 273, 342-3, 354-5.
[578] J. Evans, Anc. Bronze Implements, pp. 343-8, 354-5, 481; Archaeologia, xxvii, 1838, pp. 298-300, liv, 1895, p. 112; J. Anderson, Scotland in Pagan Times,—the Bronze and Stone Ages, p. 227.
[579] Ib., pp. 171, 173; J. Evans, Anc. Bronze Implements, pp. 250-1, 278-81, 297, 301-2, 308, 481; Archaeologia, liv, 1895, p. 112.
[580] Ib., xliii, 1871, pp. 455-6; J. Evans, Anc. Bronze Implements, p. 310.
[581] Proc. Soc. Ant., 2nd ser., xix, No. ii, 1902, pp. 287-9.
[582] ‘The openings’ [in one specimen], says Sir J. Evans (Anc. Bronze Implements, p. 332), ‘are about 17 inches from the point. An Irish friend has suggested that they were for the reception of poison, but after the blade had penetrated seventeen inches into the human body such an use of poison would probably be superfluous.’