be recovered and again used. The introduction of a loop in celts of the third class, and in arrow heads of the fifth, as proposed, would argue a similarity of date and origin between them.
In flint arrow heads we find many varieties in form, but from the nature of the material it was necessary that the shaft of the arrow should in every case be split to receive them; and hence, I think, we may safely class them under one head, although the development in their forms may indicate a difference of age.
These suggestions may possibly be modified in some particulars by a more extended examination of specimens of the interesting class of weapons under consideration.
NOTICES OF FOREIGN SEPULCHRAL BRASSES,
ESPECIALLY OF A REMARKABLE EXAMPLE AT GHENT.
In considering the results of the careful investigation of Sepulchral Antiquities, pursued in recent years with singular assiduity, especially in connection with the attractive class of engraved portraitures on metal, we are struck by the very national character of that series of medieval memorials. After an interval of six years, since a concise essay on this branch of archaeological inquiry was brought before the readers of the Journal[1] it is remarkable to observe how many interesting examples of sepulchral brasses previously unknown have been brought to light, and described or illustrated in various attractive publications. The most remote parts of the kingdom have been searched, many hundreds of these curious memorials enumerated, and collections of facsimiles extensively formed, comprising a mass of authentic information fully appreciated by the student of costume or heraldry, the local historian, and the genealogist. Nor has the inquiry been limited to our own country; it has been prosecuted through most parts of Europe; and we regard with surprise the singular fact, that Germany and Italy, countries in which the calcographic art was so early and rapidly developed, have added little to the history of the
- ↑ Archaeological Journal, vol. i., p. 197.
