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XXIX. Notes on Bronze Weapons found on Arreton Down, Isle of Wight. By Augustus W. Franks, Esq., F.S.A. In a Letter to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S, Director

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2012

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The antiquities which I wish to submit to the consideration of the Society have been brought under their notice on a former occasion; still, as a hundred and twenty years have since elapsed, it will scarcely be necessary for me to apologise for reverting to them again.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1855

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References

page 326 note a Soc. of Antiq. Minutes, Vol II p 129.

page 326 note b Ibid. Vol. II. p 285.

page 327 note a In the drawings one of the celts is represented with a modern wooden handle

page 327 note b Mr., afterwards Sir Charles, Frederick.

page 327 note c Minutes, Vol. II. p. 287. The particulars of this discovery are noticed by Mr. Lort, in his paper on celts (Archæologia, Vol. V.), and one of the celts and a spear-head engraved in Plate VIII. figs. 5, 27; both very ill done, and not recognisable.