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396 and I have specimens found on the surface of the soil near Pontlevoy, and given to me by the Abbé Bourgeois.

Baron Joseph de Baye has found them in considerable numbers in sepulchres of the Stone Age in the department of La Marne. One was found embedded in a human vertebra. They also occur in the Camp de Catenoy, Oise.

One from St. Clement's, Jersey, is in the British Museum.

Some are recorded from Namur and other parts of Belgium.

Two arrow-heads of this class, found in Denmark, have been engraved by Madsen; one of them, to which I shall again refer, was still attached to a portion of its shaft.

Nilsson has also engraved some specimens of this form found in Scandinavia. A considerable number of them were found at Lindormabacken in Scania, some of which, by the kindness of Dr. Hans Hildebrand, are in my collection. I have also specimens from Denmark. There are others from the same countries in the Christy Collection, where is also an example of the same kind from Southern Italy. Several are engraved by Bellucci.

They occur also in Germany, Spain, and Portugal. Some crescent-shaped flints with sharp edges and a central tang, found on an island in the Lake of Varese, may possibly be arrow-heads. Forms of nearly the same kind have been found near Perugia.

In General Pitt Rivers's collection are some Persian arrows with chisel-edged tips of iron. Crescent-like arrow-heads or bolt-heads, with a broad hollowed edge, were used in hunting in the Middle Ages, and some are preserved in museums. The Emperor Commodus is related to have shown his skill in archery by beheading the ostrich when at full speed with crescent-headed arrows.

There still remains to be noticed another form of triangular arrow-head, of which, however, I have never had the opportunity of seeing a British specimen. It has a notch on either side near the base, which is slightly hollowed, and in general form closely resembles a common type of North American arrow-heads. A specimen of this form, said to have been found at Hamden Hill, near Ilchester, has been engraved. Another, described as of much the same shape, was found in a barrow in Rookdale, Yorkshire. A broken specimen, with the base flat instead of hollowed, and found in Lanarkshire, has also been figured.

I am not, however, satisfied that this triangular form, with notches in the sides, is a really British type, though lance-heads notched in this manner have been found in France.

Both in Yorkshire and on the Wiltshire Downs arrow-heads have from time to time been found with their surface much abraded. There