. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. tones has been given,but the use of w7hich is at present a mystery. A hammer-stone, curiously similar to that I have engraved as * See Sir J. Y. Simpson, Pror. Soc. Ant. Scot., vol. vi. A pp. f See Reliquiae Aquit., p. 60. t Rel. Aquit., p. 108. § Arch. Assoc. Journ., vol. vii. p. 84. See Eyres Central Australia, vol. iv. p. 14. || Kellers Lake Dwellings, p. 137. Lindenschmit, Hohenz. Samml., 8. RIDGED AT THE END. 221 Fig. 165, is among those found in the settlements of the Lac duBourget,* figured by M.
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. tones has been given,but the use of w7hich is at present a mystery. A hammer-stone, curiously similar to that I have engraved as * See Sir J. Y. Simpson, Pror. Soc. Ant. Scot., vol. vi. A pp. f See Reliquiae Aquit., p. 60. t Rel. Aquit., p. 108. § Arch. Assoc. Journ., vol. vii. p. 84. See Eyres Central Australia, vol. iv. p. 14. || Kellers Lake Dwellings, p. 137. Lindenschmit, Hohenz. Samml., 8. RIDGED AT THE END. 221 Fig. 165, is among those found in the settlements of the Lac duBourget,* figured by M. Rabut. A hammer-stone, if so it may be called, of bronze is amono- theantiquities from Greenland in the Ethnological Museum at Copen-hagen. Occasionally the depression is reduced to a minimum, and con-sists of merely a slight notch or roughening on one or both facesof the pebble which has served as a hammer or pounding stone. The irregular, flat, greenstone pebble, worn away at both ends, shownin Fig. 166, has, on one face only, a notch, apparently intended to receive. flip Mm!; <;:;,,< , :fc! !«»{! piiiiiia mmm siiii Fig. 166.—Scamridge. f the thumb. It was found at Scamridge, Yorkshire, and is in the collec-tion of the Rev. W. Greenwell, It will be observed that it isworn into a curved ridge at one end. In the same collection is an ovalquartzite pebble, 4£ inches by 3 inches, battered at both ends, and witha slight diagonal ridge at that most worn away. This was found ina barrow at Weaverthorpe, with an unburnt body. I have a flat green-stone pebble from Scamridge, Yorkshire, worn away at one end to acurved ridge somewhat oblique to the faces of the pebble, one of whichis slightly polished as if by constant rubbing. Mr. Greenwell hasa granite pebble, 3£ inches by 2£ inches, from the same place, bat-tered at one end, and the other much worn away by use, which also hasone face flat and slightly polished. In the camp at Little Solsbury Hill,fnear Bath,
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