A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . s invented inIreland, and in the courseof its development spread toEngland and Scotland. It ibextrenrely rare in Prance(Case 75), and almost un-known elsewhere, so thatit is ciuite unconnectedwith the leaf-shaped pattern,which is almost universal. The dagger is known tohave been one of the earliestof bronze implements, andan advance on the mostprimitive form is shown by several of the Arreton type, which have tangs, perforated atthe extremity, to pass through a handle (fig. 55). A specimenfound
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A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . s invented inIreland, and in the courseof its development spread toEngland and Scotland. It ibextrenrely rare in Prance(Case 75), and almost un-known elsewhere, so thatit is ciuite unconnectedwith the leaf-shaped pattern, which is almost universal. The dagger is known tohave been one of the earliestof bronze implements, andan advance on the mostprimitive form is shown by several of the Arreton type, which have tangs, perforated atthe extremity, to pass through a handle (fig. 55). A specimenfound with the others on Arreton Down, with a socketed bronzehandle attached by rivets to the blade, and another from a Eoundbarrow (fig. 71) appear to be prototypes of the Irish spear-head.The next stage is marked by the manufacture of spear-heads in onepiece, the utUity of a dagger-like weapon on the end of a shafthaving been suggested in the interval. Provision was now madein the mould for a pair of loops to secure the head to the shaft bya ligature, and the result was the primitive type, fig. 72, . Fia. 68.—Chisels ;iud gouge, Englandand Ireland, i 82 DESCRIPTION OF CASE D examples of which are rare. The socket was gradually deeijened, and encroached on the central rib, which, starting with the smallerribs from the original junction of blade and handle, is often foundwell marked and angular. The tendency was for the cutting edgesto become straight and to meet at a wider angle (fig. 73), while theloops sometimes approached the base of the blades. Specimenshave been found with the loops in the angles thus formed(fig. 74), and, according to one view, their ascent did not cease there.Small narrow openings, flanked bj^ projections similar to the flat-