. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. Arch., vol. xxxii. p. 400; Proc. Soc. Ant., vol. i. p. Worsafies Nordiske Oidsager. fig. 14. § Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, vol. ii. y\. Ixxiii.; Klemm. , vol. 62. || Proc. Soc. Ant Scot., vol. v. p. 287. 152 POLISHED CELTS. [CHAP. VI. login* It is hammer-like at one end, axe-like at the other, andis formed of either one or two roughly chipped pieces of hasalt-likestone entirely unground, and secured in a mass of resinous gum, inwhich the handle is inserted. In most implements of this kindthere
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. Arch., vol. xxxii. p. 400; Proc. Soc. Ant., vol. i. p. Worsafies Nordiske Oidsager. fig. 14. § Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, vol. ii. y\. Ixxiii.; Klemm. , vol. 62. || Proc. Soc. Ant Scot., vol. v. p. 287. 152 POLISHED CELTS. [CHAP. VI. login* It is hammer-like at one end, axe-like at the other, andis formed of either one or two roughly chipped pieces of hasalt-likestone entirely unground, and secured in a mass of resinous gum, inwhich the handle is inserted. In most implements of this kindthere appear to be two separate stones used to form the doubleblade, and these are sometimes of different kinds of rock. Itwould seem that the shaft, either cleft or uncleft, passed betweenthem, and that the stones, when bound with string to hold themin their places, were further secured with a mass of the gumof the Xanthorrhoea, or grass-tree, t Such a method of hafting cannot, I think, have been in generaluse in this country, for want of the necessary cementing material,. Fig. 106.—Hatchet—Western Australia. though, from discoveries made in Scandinavia, it would appearthat a resinous pitch was in common use for fixing bronze imple-ments to their handles ; so that the practice may also have appliedto those of stone. In the Swiss Lake-dwellings bitumen was usedas a cement for attaching stone to wood. Besides those that were hafted as axes or adzes, it seemsprobable that not a few of the implements known as celts mayhave been for use in the hand as cutting tools, either mountedin short handles or unmounted. There can be but little doubtthat the implement with a depression on each face (Fig. 87), andthat with the notches at the side, were destined for use in thelatter manner, and can hardly have been unique of their kind. Dr. Lukis,+ indeed, at one time expressed an opinion that thestone celt was not intended to be secured in a handle, but washeld in the hand and applied to partic
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