Icklingham and at other places in Suffolk. A lance-head of almost the same size and form as Fig. 250, from the neighbourhood of Brescia, has been engraved by Gastaldi.[1522] They are also said to be found in Greece.[1523] They sometimes occur among American antiquities. One of them, 11 inches in length, pointed at each end, is engraved by Squier and Davis.[1524] I have a beautiful blade of pale buff chalcedony, acutely pointed at one end and rounded at the other, which was found in company with a second of the same size and character, near Comayagua, in Spanish Honduras. It is 6 3∕8 inches long and 1 1∕8 inches broad. Other lance-heads from Honduras have been published.[1525] A flint sword or spear-head 22 inches long, serrated at the end towards the point, is said to have been found in Tennessee.[1526] Lance-heads of flint, not unlike Figs. 249 and 250, are found in South Africa.[1527] [Illustration: Fig. 251.—Fimber. 1∕2] Messrs. Mortimer, of Driffield, Yorkshire, have in their collection a remarkable specimen belonging to this class of instrument, which instead of being pointed is almost semicircular at both ends. They have kindly allowed me to engrave it in Fig. 251. It has been neatly chipped from a piece of tabular flint, and not from a flake, and is equally convex on both faces; some of the salient parts along both edges are polished, as if by wear, and on either face are some of the polished “Steenstrup’s markings,” possibly arising from its having been inserted in a handle. This form is perhaps more closely connected with some of those which will shortly follow than with those which precede it. A somewhat similar oval blade 3 3∕4 inches long and 2 3∕4 inches wide, found in the Thames at Long Wittenham, and formerly belonging to the Rev. J. C. Clutterbuck, is ground along both sides, and is now in the Oxford Museum. A blade of the same form was found in the Grotte des Morts, Durfort (Gard).[1528] * * * * * In none of the specimens hitherto figured in this chapter, have the edges been sharpened by grinding; in the only instances |338| where that process has been used, it has been for the purpose of removing, not of sharpening the edge. In the case of the next examples which I am about to describe, one or both edges, and in some the whole of both faces, have been ground. * * * * * I have already mentioned instances of untrimmed flakes of flint having been ground on the edge, but knives of a similar character made from carefully chipped blades also occur, though so far as I have at present observed, principally in Scotland. [Illustration: Fig. 252.—Argyllshire. 1∕1] [Illustration: Fig. 253.—Glen Urquhart.]