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BONE HARPOONS DISCOVERED IN YORKSHIRE.—In 1922 Mr. A. Leslie Armstrong described in Man two bone harpoons said to have been found at Hornsea, West Yorkshire. At the Hull meeting of the British Association the harpoons were again exhibited, and Mr. Sheppard, curator of the Hull Museum, -questioned their authenticity on various grounds. The matter having been brought to the notice of the Council of the Royal Anthropological Institute, a committee, consisting of Sir C. H. Read, Dr. A. i Smith Woodward, and Prof. Percy F. Kendall, was appointed to investigate the matter. The report of the committee is published in the April issue of Man. The members report that there is no evidence in the objects themselves that is conclusively against their genuineness: that the similarity of the barbs in the two examples, though found 4 miles apart, points to the conclusion that they are the work of the same individual. “It is worthy of remark that at the time the earlier find was made there was no available example of a Maglemose harpoon.” “Mr. Sheppard appears to have had strong grounds for doubting the authenticity of the harpoons, but the evidence on which his judgment is based is no longer verifiable.”
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Research Items. Nature 111, 547–548 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111547a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/111547a0