Errors in Keris Literature

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May be this is useful for they who want to study keris, still from Garrett and Bronwen Solyom's book:

Various iron objects, rarely keris, have been unearthed in Javanese archaeological sites such as Sragen. Keris said to have been dug up belong to a special category. They are short, straight and sturdy with a unique square-section tang, and many features of a Surakarta keris. They are plain iron; some have iron metok, a wide ring, rusted over the tang, but original handles are unknown. The Solonese call them keris buda, believing them to come from the Central Javanese Hindhu Buddhist era (ninth century of before?). Apparently no reliable dating has been obtained for them. All objects of wesi buda (buddhist iron) are believed to be powerful.

And this is also from Garrett and Bronwen Solyom:
Another enigmatic group of keris have been simple blades and stylized human figure hilts made from one piece and of forge welded iron. Western litterature generally calls them keris majapahit (a term not used in Solo) and, with little proof, popularly labels them as the oldest kind of keris....

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