FOUND IN SCOTLAND.
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Fig. 324.—Isle of Skye. | Fig. 326.—Aberdeenshire. |
I have already mentioned the counties of Scotland in which "elf-bolts" are most abundantly found. I may now enumerate a few of the spots, and the characters of the specimens of this form. One much like Fig. 327, but with the barbs more pointed, is figured by Wilson,[1] as well as another[2] like Fig. 305, found in a tumulus at Killearn, Stirlingshire. One from the Isle of Skye,[3] like Fig. 316, and another from Shapinsay, Orkney,[4] like Fig. 312, have been figured by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Others, found with burnt bones in an urn deposited in a cairn in Banff, have been engraved by Pennant,[5] and some from Lanarkshire are given in the Journal of the Archæological Association.[6]
Stemmed and barbed arrow-heads are recorded to have been found in