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with a notch on either side about 13/4 inches from the butt. It is uncertain where it was found.

One with a notch at each side about mid-length was found at Hare Park,^[1] Cambridge.

A blade remarkably like Fig. 266 was found in the Dolmen of Vinnac^[2] (Aveyron).

Fig. 267.—Arbor Low. 1/2

A beautifully formed blade, chipped square at the base, and with a series of notches along the sides towards the butt, was found at Arbor Low, Derbyshire.^[3] The late Mr. J. F. Lucas obligingly lent it to me for engraving, as Fig. 267. It is now preserved in the British Museum.

In the Wiltshire Barrows, explored by Sir R. Colt Hoare, were several of these daggers. One,^[4] 61/2 inches long, was found with a skeleton beneath a large "sarsen stone" near Durrington Walls, in company with a small whetstone, a cone and ring of jet like a pulley, and two small discoidal scrapers. Another,^[5] of much the same form and size as Fig. 264, occurred in company with a drinking-cup, and what was probably a whetstone of "ligniformed asbestos," at the feet of a skeleton in a barrow near Stonehenge.

Others have been found in the barrows of Derbyshire and Yorkshire. In Green Low, on Alsop Moor,^[6] a dagger-blade of flint, 6 inches long, stemmed and barbed arrow-heads, a bone pin, and other bone instruments, were associated with a contracted interment. It was in this barrow also that the pyrites and scrapers, previously mentioned at p. 313, were found. Another leaf-shaped dagger of white flint, 41/2 inches long, with the narrow half curiously serrated—as boldly as Fig. 266, but with many more notches—was found by Mr. Bateman beneath the head of a contracted skeleton in Nether Low,^[7] near Chelmorton. Another, 41/4 inches long, was found with burnt bones in one of the Three Lows,^[8] near Wetton. A flint dagger,^[9] elegantly chipped, 51/4 inches long, was found on Blake Low, near Matlock, in 1786. Fragments of similar daggers have been found with interments in barrows near Pickering;^[10] and in Messrs. Mortimer's rich collection is a fine specimen from a barrow on the Yorkshire Wolds.

One like Fig. 264, but of coarser workmanship, 53/4 inches long and 23/8 inches wide, was found in 1862, with a skeleton and an earthen vessel, at Norton, near Daventry, and particulars sent to me by the

1. Arch. Journ., vol. xvii. p. 170.
2. Mat., vol. xi. p. 87.
3. Jewitt's "Grave Mounds," fig. 155, where it is shown full size.
4. "South Wilts," p. 172, pl. xix. "Cat. Devizes Mus.," No. 85b.
5. "South Wilts," p. 164, pl. xvii. "Cat. Devizes Mus.," No. 84.
6. "Vest. Ant. Derb.," p. 59. "Cran. Brit." pl. 41, p. 3. Reliq., vol. iii. p. 177.
7. "Ten Years' Dig.," p. 52.
8. Ibid., p. 167. Bateman, "Cat.," p. 38.
9. "Vest. Ant. Derb.," p. 5.
10. "Ten Years' Dig.," p. 228. Bateman, "Cat.," p. 43.