In one of the looped forms both the blade and the socket are often highly ornamented. The socket part is made to appear somewhat like a haft to the blade, as in the Arreton Down specimen (Fig. 328), and the blade itself has ridges running nearly parallel to the edges, the midrib being almost square in section. An example of this kind from Ballymena is, by the kindness of Mr. R. Day, F.S.A., shown in Fig. 401. As will be seen, the socket, blade, and external faces of the loops are all ornamented with engraved and punctured lines. A beautiful example from Ireland (6½ inches), the socket engraved with a double ring of chevrons near the middle, and a single ring near the base, and also ornamented with dotted circles and lines extending down the blade, is in the British Museum. It has two knobs on each side of the socket simulating rivets. Other varieties with the midrib more rounded are given by Wilde,[1253] and two of his figures are, by the kindness of the Council of the Royal Irish Academy, here reproduced as Figs. 402 and 403.[1254] The original of Fig. 402 is 5 inches long. It has “a central circular stud opposite the base of the blade, beneath which there are a series of minute continuous lines margined on both sides by a row of elevated dots.” The socket and the outer surface of the loops are also highly decorated. Fig. 403 is 7½ inches long, and is also artistically ornamented. [Illustration: Fig. 402.—Ireland. ⅔] [Illustration: Fig. 403.—Ireland. ½] [Illustration: Fig. 404.—Ireland.] An example of this kind is given in “Horæ Ferales.”[1255] One (5¼ inches) from the Dean Water, Forfarshire, is in the Antiquarian Museum at Edinburgh. The blade is ornamented by incised lines and punctulations. Fig. 404, also kindly lent by the Royal Irish Academy (Wilde, Fig. 378), shows a smaller and a plainer type. An unornamented lance-head of this type (5 inches) was found at Peel,[1256] in the Isle of Man. Another, 5⅝ inches, with three bands of parallel lines round the socket, was obtained at Douglas, Lanarkshire.[1257] The spear-heads of this class with loops at the side of the sockets are almost unknown out of the British Islands. In my own collection, however, is one from the Seine at Paris (6¼ inches), almost identical in form with Fig. 394, but with the lozenge-shaped plates forming the loops somewhat wider. [Illustration: Fig. 405.—Elford. ½] A highly ornamented spear-head from Hungary,[1258] preserved in the Museum at Buda-Pest, has small semicircular loops at the sides of the socket.