[1017] Ency. Brit., l.c.
[1018] Sir J. Evans, Ancient Stone Implements of Great Britain, 2nd edition, 1897, p. 411.
[1019] Archery, p. 16.
[1020] Archery, pp. 10-11. For a full account of the construction and distribution of the different kinds of bows, see H. Balfour, in Jour. Anthrop. Inst. XIX. 1889, pp. 220-254. See also Gen. A. Pitt-Rivers, Evolution of Culture, ed. J. L. Myres, 1906, pp. 45-184. A useful, concise account of the bow is contained in Dr H. S. Harrison’s Handbook to the Weapons of War and the Chase (Horniman Museum), 1908, pp. 39-43.
[1021] Yew-Trees, p. 110. Sir John Evans possessed a flint flake, hafted in yew wood, which was found at Nussdorf, in Switzerland (see Anc. Stone Impts., p. 292).
[1022] Archery, p. 115.
[1023] Ibid. p. 115.
[1024] Archery, pp. 109-10. Yew-Trees, pp. 131-2. Daines Barrington, in Archaeologia, 1785, VII. pp. 46-48.
[1025] Chambers’s Cyclopaedia, Art. “Archery.”
[1026] Archery, p. 141.