Arms and Armour in Antiquity and the Middle Ages; Also a Descriptive Notice of Modern Weapons

📓 This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... NOTES. Note I, p. i.--In the infancy of nations, the same implement which would be applied to the ordinary requirements and uses of every-day life, would also doubtless serve the purpose of the hunter in the chase : and in the time of strife, the very same implements, with some additions probably suggested by the exigency of circumstances, would become the weapons of a barbarous people. Note 2, /. 4.--It is quite possible that some of the statements in the text relative to the distinctive characteristics of various primaeval objects in flint, may be considered, even by many experienced archaeologists, to be speculative, or, perhaps, purely fanciful. The study of these certainly very curious relics of remote ages has been pursued with great earnestness and proportionate success on this side of the Channel, where the flint weapons and implements have been found in great numbers and no inconsiderable variety. Note 3, /. 7.--See Note 2. Note 4, /. 8.--The sketch of the "Stone Period," given in Chapter I. in the text, is to be regarded as a sketch only; so that it has not been proposed to enter with any minuteness into details, or, indeed, to deal with the " Period" at all from an archaeological point of view. Stone "celts," and every variety of implement or weapon of the same class or period, are constantly found in England. The term "Dolmen" denotes certain Celtic tombs, which consist of a large nearly flat tablestone, raised entirely from the ground upon two or more (but not more than four) stone props or upright blocks. Note 5, /. 9.--In the Athenaum ;ournal, No. 2,121, published June 20, 1868, there appeared a communication dated from " Shanghai, China, April 21, 1868," and bearing the signature of "Thos. W. Kingsmill, Corr. Sec. of...