[Illustration: Fig. 413.—Ireland. ½] [Illustration: Fig. 414.—Antrim. ½] A fine spear-head in my own collection thus perforated, found near Lurgan, Co. Armagh,[1277] is shown in Fig. 412. It is 24 inches in length, and 3¼ inches in extreme breadth. The openings are about 17 inches from the point. An Irish friend has suggested that they were for the reception of poison, but after the blade had penetrated seventeen inches into the human body such an use of poison would probably be superfluous. A spear-head of the same form (19⅛ inches) was found on the hill of Rosele, Duffus, Morayshire,[1278] and is now in the Elgin Museum. Another, broken, but still 10⅝ inches long, was found with a rapier-shaped blade at Corbridge, Northumberland.[1279] A broken specimen was found in the Isle of Portland.[1280] A spear-head (10 inches) with small openings in the blade was found, with palstaves, socketed celts, rapiers, bracelets, and a ferrule, at Wallington, Northumberland, and is in the possession of Sir Charles Trevelyan. [Illustration: Fig. 415.—Thames. ½] [Illustration: Fig. 416.—Naworth Castle. ½] An “eyed” spear-head 22 inches long was found in the Thames near Datchet,[1281] but whether it was of this or some other type I cannot say. One (9 inches) with two holes at the base of the leaf above the ferrule was found near Speen, Berks.[1282] A broader form (13½ inches) from Ireland is engraved by Wilde (Fig. 365), and another broader still is shown in my Fig. 413. This has a rivet-hole on the front of the socket, as well as the holes in the blade. This is also in the Dublin Museum. In some instances the blade is very much shorter in proportion to the length of the socket, as will be seen in Fig. 414, the original of which was found in the county of Antrim, and is now in Canon Greenwell’s collection. A remarkably fine English example of the same class is shown in Fig. 415. This specimen was found in the Thames, and is now in the British Museum. The small projecting flanges at the side of the holes in the blade are very strongly marked, and form circular discs when seen with the edge of the spear-head towards the spectator. The simplest of the forms, in which the holes in the blade appear to be for ornament rather than use, is that in which there are two circular or oval holes through the blade, one on either side of the midrib containing the socket. The spear-head shown in Fig. 416 was found near Naworth Castle, Cumberland, in 1870, and is in the collection of Canon Greenwell. In general form it resembles the type, Fig. 381. It is provided with a rivet-hole through the socket. [Illustration: Fig. 417.—Blakehope. ½] [Illustration: Fig. 418.—Whittingham. ¼] Some Italian spear-heads have two circular holes in the blade, but nearer the base.