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354 butt, so as to facilitate insertion in a handle, were found in the sepulchral cave of St. Jean d'Alcas, in the Aveyron. Another, worked on both faces, about 7 inches long and 1 inches broad, notched in two or three places on each side at the base, was found in one of the dolmens of the Lozère. A third, shorter and broader, but also notched at the base, was in the dolmen of Grailhe (Gard).

A finely-worked, somewhat lozenge-shaped, blade of flint, 10 inches in length, was found at Spiennes, near Mons, in Belgium.

A lance-head (6 inches) from the Government of Vladimir, Russia, has been figured.

A lance-head of flint, 9 inches long and 2 broad, tanged at the butt, and with a notch on each side of the tang, has been figured by Gastaldi from a specimen in the Museum at Naples, found at Telese.

In Egypt, associated with other objects betokening a considerable civilization, have been found several thin blades of flint, of much the same character as the highly-finished European specimens. A magnificent lance-head (14 inches) has been presented to the Ashmolean Museum by Prof. Flinders Petrie. It is delicately serrated along the edges for most of its length. A smaller blade is more leaf-shaped and minutely serrated all round. Another appears to have been hafted as a dagger. In my own collection is a leaf-shaped blade 7 inches long, most delicately made and serrated. Others are, however, thick at the back, and provided with a tang like a metallic knife. Two of these in the Berlin Museum, are 7 inches and 6 inches long respectively, and 2 inches and 2 inches wide; I have one 5 inches in length. There are other specimens in the Egyptian Museums at Leyden and Turin, and in the National Museum at Edinburgh. A larger blade, and even more closely resembling some of the Scandinavian lunate instruments in form, being leaf-shaped, but more curved on one edge than the other, is also in the Berlin Museum. It is 9 inches long and 2 inches wide. A curved scimitar-like knife from Egypt is figured, as is one with a notch on each side of the butt. Another blade, of ovate form, and without tang, 2 inches long and 1 inch wide, is preserved in the Mayer Collection in the Museum at Liverpool.

Some other Egyptian blades will be subsequently mentioned.

A dagger-blade of flint, still mounted in its original handle, is in the British Museum, and has already been described.

Some of the dagger-blades in use in Mexico in ancient times were of