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Rh torn from the shaft. The head was then improved still further by the omission of the tang, and by the amalgamation of the ferrule with the blade.

This, however, did not materially alter the appearance of the head, though it added much to the firmness of the hold which the two parts of the spear had on each other. A head was thus produced which was provided with a socket, though at that time the cavity was not carried up into the blade. These apparent rivet heads are simulated, as also the junction of the blade socket. The next step was the extension of the socket up into the blade.

The wings undergo many significant and interesting changes. At first the outline of the base of the wings, where it emerges from the socket, retains the old concave form, which is a survival of the period when the edge stopped at the simulated junction of the blade and ferrule. This is illustrated in fig. 21, representing a specimen from the Arreton Down hoard. The rivets which originally fastened on the sheath are