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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
Much has already been said on the Angon, and after the so full and interesting communication, illustrated by the able pencil of Herr Lindenschmit, with which you favoured us last season on this historic subject, any further comments may appear needless. At the risk of such an imputation, however, I shall beg permission to submit some additional gleanings, made during the past summer, of the attentive consideration of the Society.
page 80 note a Mémoires de la Société Philomathique de Verdun, vol. iii. p. 199.
page 80 note b In vol. x. and entitled “Recherches Historiques sur les Peuples de la race Teutonique. Par M. le Dr. Rigollot.”
page 80 note c Arclæologia, Vol. XXXV. p. 51.
page 81 note a Montfaucon, L'Antiquité expliquée, vol. iv. p. 63.
page 81 note b Vegetius de re Militari, 1.1. c. 20.
page 81 note c Vegetius, lib. ii. c. 15.
page 82 note a Mr. Roach Smith has in his possession the sketches of several smaller trilateral iron weapons found in a Roman castrum on Hod Hill, near Blandford, Dorset. There was no admixture of British or Saxon relics and, from the coins found with the arms, Mr. Smith considers the castrum to be of a date not later than Vespasian.
page 82 note b “Lanceis dextræ refertæ.” Lib.-iv. Ep. 20
page 82 note c Hist. lib. ii. c. 5.
page 82 note d Axchæologia, Vol. XXXV. p. 50.
page 83 note a Sépultures de la Vallée de l'Eaulne, par M. J. P. Feret.
page 83 note b Gibbon, Decline and Fall, chap. 17.
page 84 note a The Angon referred to was found last September in a grave at Envermeu, near the head of a skeleton, together with a very short lance-head. The stem of the Angon is round; the length being forty inches English measure.—Normandie Souterraine, 2nd ed. p. 352.