Another form, more spherical at the base, is shown in Fig. 427, copied from the _Archæological Journal_.[1316] The original, with several others, was found at St. Margaret’s Park, Hereford. The socket tapers to a point 1½ inches from the extremity. A nearly similar ferrule, but with a slight cylindrical projection beyond the spherical part, was found with other bronze objects at Lanant, Cornwall.[1317] A kind of pointed ferrule of a nearly square section, with the faces hollowed, which was found near Windsor,[1318] and is now in the British Museum, not improbably belongs to a later date than the Bronze Period. In the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy are several ferrules, apparently for the end of spear shafts, some of which are said to have been found with spear-heads. Many of these have ornaments of a late Celtic[1319] character upon them. Others[1320] appear to have been made from plates turned over and soldered, and not to have been cast hollow. Both of these kinds are of more recent date than the Bronze Age. Tapering ferrules of bronze occur in Italy, and a pointed iron ferrule, probably belonging to a barbed javelin of Roman age, was found in the river Witham, near Lincoln.[1321] A ferrule, about 3 inches long, with parallel lines engraved round it, is in the Museum at Clermont Ferrand. Another, more conical, is in that of Narbonne.[1322] Some with expanded button-like ends have been found in the Lake-dwellings of Savoy. Several ferrules, some of them very short, were found with bronze spear-heads at Alise Ste. Reine (Côte d’Or).[1323] [Illustration: Fig. 425.—Glancych. ½] [Illustration: Fig. 426.—Fulbourn. ½] [Illustration: Fig. 427.—Hereford. ½] Others, some of them ornamented, formed part of the great Bologna hoard. A ferrule was found with a bronze spear-head, between 23 and 24 inches long, in the Alban Necropolis, and is figured in the _Archæologia_.[1324] Padre Garrucci regards this spear as neither Greek, nor Etruscan, nor Latin, but Celtic.