BRONZE SPEARS
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The longer shaft rendered them less necessary, and they were replaced by a peg much reduced in size, so as to be practically useless, then simulated, and finally disappeared.
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| Fig. 20.—Bronze celt from Sweden. After Montelius. | Fig. 21.—Spearhead from Arreton Down. |
The angular break in the flow of the outline of the wings, the upper part of the blade alone being provided with a sharp edge, is due to the fact that in the earlier examples the edge stopped at the simulated junction of the blade and socket.
This form is almost confined to the United Kingdom, though a few have been found at Mycenæ, in Hungary,
