. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. 2 inches long and l£ inches wide at the edge,nearly triangular in outline ; and another with an oblique edge fromHelperthorre, 2£ inches long and If inches wide. One from GantonWold, 2f inches long, has a straight edge. I have a very rudespecimen from the Yorkshire Wolds about If inches long, If incheswide at the edge, and 1 inch at the butt. They occur also in John Stuart, Sec. Scotland, has shown me a sketch of a flintcelt of this type 4f inches long and 2f inches wide at the edge, fromBogingarry, Old
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. 2 inches long and l£ inches wide at the edge,nearly triangular in outline ; and another with an oblique edge fromHelperthorre, 2£ inches long and If inches wide. One from GantonWold, 2f inches long, has a straight edge. I have a very rudespecimen from the Yorkshire Wolds about If inches long, If incheswide at the edge, and 1 inch at the butt. They occur also in John Stuart, Sec. Scotland, has shown me a sketch of a flintcelt of this type 4f inches long and 2f inches wide at the edge, fromBogingarry, Old Deer, Aberdeenshire. I have a celt of this character,4 inches long and If inches wide, from the neighbourhood of Mons, inBelgium. Another much more elongated form, but still belonging to the sameclass of implement, is that represented by Fig. 34. The original is ofgrey flint, and was found at Weston, Norfolk. It was formerly in thecollection of Mr. Joseph Warren, of Ixworth, but is now in my grinding is continued further along the body of the implement than. THE LONG NARROW FORM. 81 in the former examples, especially on one of the faces, and the asperitiesof the sides have in places*been removed by the same process. Abouthalf-way along the blade, some of the facets have been polished byfriction. The Rev. W. Greenwell, , has a beautiful specimen 8| inchesJong, 2 inches broad at edge, and f inch at butt, and nowhere more thanf inch thick. It is most skilfully chipped, and the grinding extends only
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