The fashion of the spears, of the swords, and of their sheaths, prevailing at this early period, when the use of bronze and iron overlapped, has been hitherto but sparingly revealed to us by finds of weapons in England, Scotland, and Scandinavia. Kemble, in his _Horæ Ferales_, engraves several examples of short swords or daggers, the fashion of which is identical with that now for the first time so clearly shown us by the Lisnacroghera crannog find.” Professor Anderson, in his _Rhind Lectures_, has recorded the discovery of a bronze spear-butt, exactly similar, in one of the _brochs_ of Scotland; it is correlated by him with the pagan iron age; and in a recent number of the _Proceedings_ of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Denmark there is engraved an iron sword-blade, with bronze haft-mountings, nearly identical in form and fashion with those discovered at Lisnacroghera.[195] [Illustration: Plate XXXIX. Haft of Iron Sword, with Bronze Mountings, from Lisnacroghera. Full size.] The antiquities found in this crannog consisted of a plain bronze sheath (plate XII., fig. 1), containing an iron sword (p. 61, fig. 17): the haft is represented full size (plate XXXIX.). One side of ornamented sheath slightly smaller than the former (plate 12, fig. 2): a full-sized representation is given (plate XL.). [Illustration: Plate XL. Upper and lower portions of side of the Bronze Sheath, from Lisnacroghera, full size, of which a half-size representation is given, Plate XII. fig. 2.] [Illustration: Fig. 199.--Upper portion of Bronze Sheath. Full-size.] [Illustration: Fig. 200.--Iron Sickle. Eleven inches from point of blade to end of tang.]