. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. the most importance. Another specimen is figured in the Arcliaohxiia;\ and a narrow flintcelt of this character, 5| inches long, found with a larger celt in abarrow in Hampshire,| is in the British Museum. Another rough-hewn celt is shown in Fig. 27. Like several others,both from Cissbury and Spiennes, the two ends are almost similar inform, so that it is diificult to say at which extremity the cutting edge wasto be. Possibly it was found convenient to fashion some of the imple- * Arch., xlii. i). 07. t xHi. pi. viii. IS
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. the most importance. Another specimen is figured in the Arcliaohxiia;\ and a narrow flintcelt of this character, 5| inches long, found with a larger celt in abarrow in Hampshire,| is in the British Museum. Another rough-hewn celt is shown in Fig. 27. Like several others,both from Cissbury and Spiennes, the two ends are almost similar inform, so that it is diificult to say at which extremity the cutting edge wasto be. Possibly it was found convenient to fashion some of the imple- * Arch., xlii. i). 07. t xHi. pi. viii. IS. j Iloriu , pi. li. 36. THE CISSBURY FORMS. 73 meiits, in the first instance, into this comparatively regular oval contour,and subsequently to chip an edge at whichever end seemed best adaptedfor the purpose. This instrument is not unlike that from the Forest ofBere, Fig. 23. Another from Cissbury, with more parallel sides, isfigured in the ArcJucoloi/ia* Others from the same place are like , 17, and 23, and like Fig. 35, though not ground at the edi^ 26.—Cissbury.
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