. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. ut Pegge I pointed out that they were too heavy for such a purpose, orfor use as missiles, and came to the conclusion that these perforatedstones were not originally applied to any warlike purpose, but rather tosome domestic service, either as a hammer or beetle for common Nilsson,§ at a later date, has arrived at the same conclusion,and considers them most suitable for being held in the left hand by ashort handle, and driven into wood by blows from a club held in theright hand. He has suggested for them th
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. ut Pegge I pointed out that they were too heavy for such a purpose, orfor use as missiles, and came to the conclusion that these perforatedstones were not originally applied to any warlike purpose, but rather tosome domestic service, either as a hammer or beetle for common Nilsson,§ at a later date, has arrived at the same conclusion,and considers them most suitable for being held in the left hand by ashort handle, and driven into wood by blows from a club held in theright hand. He has suggested for them the name of handled some parts of France I have seen extremely beavy iron axes, muchresembling these stone implements in form, used for splitting wood. It * P. ill. f Proc. Soe. Ant., 2nd S., vol. iv. p 349. % Arch., vol. ii. p. 127. § Stone Age, p. T6. 182 PERIORATED AXES. [CHAP. VIII. seenis possible that in old times these heavy stone implements may alsohave been employed in agriculture. Axes of this character, usually formed of greenstone, are very common. Fig. 132 Wollaton Park. in Denmark and Northern Germany. They are much rarer in France,partly, no doubt, in consequence of the less abundance of specimen of the same form, but rather more square at the butt than HAMMER-LUCE AT ONE END. 183 Fig. 131, made of dark serpentine, and only 3f inches long, was found atTanagra, in Boeotia, and is in the collection of Dr. G. Finlay,* of Athens. Some of the forms last described, having square butt-ends, might,perhaps, with greater propriety have been included in the fourthclass into which I have proposed to divide these instruments, viz.,axe-hammers, with an edge at one end and more or less hammer-like at the other, and with the shaft-hole usually about the centre.
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