In Fig. 264 is shown a beautiful dagger of white flint, which was found in a barrow on Lambourn Down, Berks, in company with a celt and some exquisitely-finished stemmed and barbed arrow-heads of the same material. It is now in the British Museum. Its edges are sharp all along, and not blunted towards the butt-end. It may have been an entirely new weapon, buried with the occupant of the barrow for use in another state of existence, or it may have had moss wrapped round that part, so as to protect the hand; like the blade[1566] of flint with _Hypnum brevirostre_ wrapped round its butt-end to form a substitute for a handle, which was found in the bed of the River Bann, in Ireland. Some North American implements of similar character are, as Sir Wollaston Franks[1567] has pointed out, hafted by insertion into a split piece of wood in which |350| they are bound by a cord. One from the north-west coast, thus mounted, is in the British Museum. Professor Nilsson[1568] has engraved another American knife, in the same collection, but erroneously refers it to New Zealand. A good specimen (6 1∕2 inches) was found in 1890 in a field known as Little Wansford, near Great Weldon, Northamptonshire. I have specimens (6 1∕4 inches) from Fiskerton, Lincolnshire, and from Bottisham Fen, Cambs (4 5∕8 inches). There is a slight shoulder on the latter rather nearer the butt than the point. A beautiful specimen (6 3∕4 inches) from a barrow at Garton.[1569] Yorkshire, E. R., has been figured. [Illustration: Fig. 265.—Thames. 1∕2] [Illustration: Fig. 266.—Burnt Fen.] The blade shown in Fig. 265 is in the British Museum, having been formerly in the Roach Smith Collection. It is of nearly black flint, and was found in the Thames. Its length is still 7 inches, but from the form of the point it seems possible that it may, as already suggested, originally have been even longer. There is in the Museum another specimen from the Thames,[1570] 5 3∕4 inches long, in form like Fig. 264. Both of these have the edges towards the butt rendered more or less blunt, and have had any prominences removed by grinding. The same is the case with a blade 6 inches long and 2 3∕8 inches wide, found |351| in Quy Fen in 1849, and now in the Museum of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. In the same collection is a smaller specimen, 4 3∕4 inches long and 1 5∕8 inches wide, from Burwell Fen. This has its edges sharp, and shows the natural crust of the flint at the butt, as does also one 7 inches long by 2 1∕2 inches wide, found at Jackdaw Hill, near Cambridge.[1571] Another blade (5 3∕8 inches) found at Wolseys, near Dunmow, Essex, is in the British Museum. A blade of this type from a garden at Walton-on-Thames[1572] is recorded.