Bitumen used to fix flint-chips in wooden weapons, 49 ‘Black chalcos,’ 77 Black Pagoda (Madras), wrought iron in, 109 Black sand, 102 Blade of a Sword, 124 Blasrohr (blow-tube), 14 _n_ Blende (sulphuret of zinc), 84; derivation of the word, 84 _n_ Bloma ferri, 114 _n_ Bloom (of iron), 114 _n_ Bloomary (= bloomery), 114 _n_ Bloomeries (ancient furnaces), 114 _n_ Blow-pipe, 14; of copper, 67 Blue basalt, 100 Blue-stone (sulphate of copper, blue copperas), 60 Boars’-hoofs used as armour, 29 _n_ Boar, wild (its method of attack), 12 Boians (Etruria), 196 Bolas (slings), 19 Bombola (birthplace of Martial), 266 _n_ ‘Bone Age,’ 23 ‘Bone-and-stone-using people,’ 23 Bone as a base to carry trenchant substances, 27 Bone-club of Nootka Sound Indians, 25 Bone-handles for Swords and daggers, 27 Bone-knives, 26; -daggers, 26, 27 Bone-points to weapons, 23 Boomerang, 19; derivation of the word, 33 _n_; Indian specimens, 35; its movement explained, 35 _sq._ Boomerang-sword, 39; in Ancient Egypt, 155 Boot (derivation of the word), 175 Borax used for soldering, 85 _n_ Boundaries demarked by the axe, 91 Bouterolles of a Sword, 124 _n_ Bowie-knife bayonet, 134 _n_ Bow (derivation of the word), 19 _n_ — of a Sword, 125 — of Vishnu, the, 213 — the, in Ancient Gaul and Germany, 274 _n_ — and arrow among the Ancient Hindús, 215 Bows and arrows used by the Ancient Romans, 245 Bows, ancient Egyptian, 154 Boxing, 7 ‘Boycotting’ St. Paul, 185 Bracchæ (breeches), 269 _n_ Bracelet of copper, 73 _n_ ‘Brave Master Shoe-tye, the great traveller’ 3 _n_ Brande or Bronde (Sword), 123 Braquemart, 123 Brass early in Christian era, 84; derivation of the word, 85 ‘Brass’ guns, 56 ‘Brass’ in the A. V. of the Bible, 56 Breast-belt, gladiatorial, 253 Breastplates of copper, 68 Breeches (etymology of the word), 269 _n_ Breitsachs (Ancient German weapon), 272 Brennus, 267 Bridal presents of Ancient Germans, 273 Bridle of gold, 212 Brise-épées, 138 Britain (‘Ynis Prydhain’ Island), 77 _n_ British Sword in the Tower, 263 Broad-axe (American squatters’), 128 Broadsword, various forms of, 96, 123 Bronze, 22 _n_, 74 _sqq._ ‘Bronze Age,’ 22 _n_, 23 _n_ — Age in Britain, 275 — Age in Switzerland, 275 — Age of Scandinavian Goths, 274 — armlets, Etruscan, 30 — armour, 80 — armour-suit (Roman cavalry), 248 — arms of the Gauls, 267 — arrow-heads, Carthaginian, 181 — casting in, 80 — chisels, 79 — daggers, 78 _n_, 80 — defensive armour (Roman), 254 — derivation of the word, 77 — door-sockets, Assyrian, 202 — hardening of, 53 — hatchets in wooden handles, 154 — in Great Britain, source of, 275 — knives, 80 — lancehead at Mycenæ, 230 — nails, 82 — parazonium, 239 — quadriga, 80 — rapier in Ireland, 279 _n_