. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. the building, and in the midden around it, were a very largenumber of oval sandstone pounding-stones and of large sandstoneflakes, probably a rude sort of knives, a pebble with a grooveround it like a ships block, and a few celts. In Shetland theserude stone implements have been found with human skeletonsinterred in cists, sometimes with polished weapons, f A verycurious implement, somewhat T-shaped, with pointed extremities,and grooves round the transverse part, was found in the brookof Quoyness,+ Sanday,
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. the building, and in the midden around it, were a very largenumber of oval sandstone pounding-stones and of large sandstoneflakes, probably a rude sort of knives, a pebble with a grooveround it like a ships block, and a few celts. In Shetland theserude stone implements have been found with human skeletonsinterred in cists, sometimes with polished weapons, f A verycurious implement, somewhat T-shaped, with pointed extremities,and grooves round the transverse part, was found in the brookof Quoyness,+ Sanday, Orkney, and has been engraved. Many of the pestle-like stones are merely chipped into asomewhat cylindrical form, but others have been picked or groundall over, so as to give them a circular or oval section. The endsin many instances are more or less splintered, as if by hammeringsome hard substance rather than by pounding, and the exactpurpose to which they were applied it is extremely difficult todivine. Four of them are shown, on a small scale, in Figs. 174 to Fig. 174.—Shetland. * See Laings Prehistoric Remains of Caithness, 1866. Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot.,vol. vii. passim; viii. 64, pi. vi. Mem. Anthrop. Sos. Lond., vol. ii. p. 294; I am indebted to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland for the loan of to 179. f Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., vol. vii. p. 136. % P. S. A. S., vol. vii. pp. 358, 400. 2-30 HAMMER-STONES, ETC. |~CHAP. X. Some are more club-like* in character, as in Fig. 178. and areeven occasionally wrought to a handle at one end. as was the case
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