A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . Fig. 7G.—Armlet, HeatheryBurn Cave, Stanhope, Co. Dur-ham. -Jf. Fig. 77.—Back of disc, HeatheryBurn Cave. ?, penannular ring of triangular section. The only important classesof implements not represented in the find were the dagger, shield,hammer, and sickle. Barbed spear-heads like that from Essex (fig. 78) are rare, andonly occur in England and Wales. It is more likely they wereused for hunting large animals than for spearing salmon ; andother specimens are shovvn in Cases A, B, and 9 (Broadw
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A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . Fig. 7G.—Armlet, HeatheryBurn Cave, Stanhope, Co. Dur-ham. -Jf. Fig. 77.—Back of disc, HeatheryBurn Cave. ?, penannular ring of triangular section. The only important classesof implements not represented in the find were the dagger, shield, hammer, and sickle. Barbed spear-heads like that from Essex (fig. 78) are rare, andonly occur in England and Wales. It is more likely they wereused for hunting large animals than for spearing salmon ; andother specimens are shovvn in Cases A, B, and 9 (Broadwardhoard). The long rivet, still in position, is si^ecially connectedwith this type. Illustrations are here given of American lanceor arrow-heads to show the independent invention of the barbedand other forms (fig. 79). Case E. There is no doubt that in the Bronze period there was a closeconnection between the civilisation of France and these islands ;and though it is only in Brittanj^ and the Paris basin that closeanalogies may be looked for, it must be remembered that theElione, which belongs rather to the Swiss and Italian areasof culture, was on the hi