Grave-mounds and their contents; a manual of archaeology, as exemplified in the burials of the Celtic, the Romano-British, and the Anglo-Saxon periods (1870)
bronze, and is three and a half inches long. It is of re-markably good form, deeply socketed, like the precedingexample, and of a kind of leaf shape. Arrow-heads are alsooccasionally found. Of these the example here engraved isa good type. It is of bronze, and measures about an inchand a quarter in… … Iron knives are occasionally found with interments.Some remarkable instances of this have been recentlybrought to light near Plymouth, and others again at Wettonand other places. The knives are of the form engraved onfig. 305. They appear to have had wooden handles, which, Fig. 305-
Mounds · Megalithic monuments
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