Canon Greenwell found other knives in barrows at Sherburn[1] and Etton,[2] Yorkshire. The latter is beautifully serrated and I am enabled to reproduce his figure of it as Fig. 240a.[3] He found another of the same character in a barrow at Bishop's Burton,[4] Yorkshire. Knives not serrated have been found at Carn Brê,[5] Cornwall; Chagford,[6] Devon; and Grovehurst[7] near Milton, Kent.
Fig. 241.—Weaverthorpe. 12
A serrated knife was found in a barrow at Dalmore,[8] Alness, Ross-shire, and another, less distinctly serrated, at Tarland,[9] Aberdeenshire. In some instruments, evidently belonging to the same class, the secondary flaking does not extend over the whole of the convex surface of the blade, but some of the facets of the original flake are still visible, or if it has been an external flake, some portion of the original crust of the flint remains. This is the case with the blade engraved in Fig. 241, which was found by Canon Greenwell in a barrow near Weaverthorpe,[10] Yorkshire. In another barrow at Rudstone, Yorkshire, also opened by him, was a rather smaller but similar instrument, very neatly formed, and somewhat serrated at the edge. It lay at the feet of a skeleton. General Pitt Rivers found one nearly similar in a pit in the Isle of Thanet.[11]
Fig. 242.—Wykeham Moor. 12
Knives of much the same form, but more rudely chipped, from Udny, Aberdeenshire, and Urquhart, Elgin, are in the National Museum at Edinburgh. They have also been found on the Culbin Sands, Elginshire.[12]
Some of these blades are left blunt at the butt-end of the flake, or else not so carefully worked round at that end, but that the square end of the original flake may be discerned. A very fine specimen of this kind was obtained by Canon Greenwell in a barrow on Wykeham Moor, Yorkshire,[13] and is shown in Fig. 242. It was found lying side by side with a fluted bronze dagger, affording, as Canon Greenwell observes, a valuable illustration of the contemporaneous use of bronze and stone. He has found others, both with burnt and unburnt bodies, in barrows in Yorkshire and Northumberland. I have a beautiful blade of the same general form, but rather more rounded at the point and curved slightly in the other direction,- ↑ "Brit. Barrows," p. 153.
- ↑ Op. cit., p. 285.
- ↑ By permission of the delegates of the Clarendon Press.
- ↑ Arch., vol. lii. p. 31.
- ↑ Reliq. and Ill. Archæologist, vol. ii. p. 46.
- ↑ Trans. Devon. Assoc., vol. xii. p. 367.
- ↑ Arch. Cant., vol. xiii. p. 124.
- ↑ Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., vol. xiii. p. 254.
- ↑ P. S. A. S., vol. xxii. p. 25.
- ↑ "Brit. Barr.," p. 198.
- ↑ Journ. Ethn. Soc., vol. i. pl. i. 14.
- ↑ P. S. A. S., vol. xix. p. 10; vol. xxv. p. 498.
- ↑ Arch. Journ., vol. xxii. p. 243. "Brit. Barr.," p. 359.
