Ilios; the city and country of the TrojansThe results of researches and discoveries on the site of Troy and throughout the Troad in the years 1871-72-73-78-79, including an autobiography of the author . No. 621. Stone Axe, with a groove in the middle. (Half actual size. Depth, 26 ft.) out nearly to a point; a shallow groove in the middle of each side provesthat the operation of drilling a hole through it had been commenced, butwas abandoned. 9 P. Madsen, Antiquity pr&histor. du Dane- J. J. A. Worsaae, Nordiske Oldsager; Copen-marc; Copenhagen, 1873, PI. xxxi. No. 12. hagen, 1859, p. 13, No. 38
Ilios; the city and country of the TrojansThe results of researches and discoveries on the site of Troy and throughout the Troad in the years 1871-72-73-78-79, including an autobiography of the author . No. 621. Stone Axe, with a groove in the middle. (Half actual size. Depth, 26 ft.) out nearly to a point; a shallow groove in the middle of each side provesthat the operation of drilling a hole through it had been commenced, butwas abandoned. 9 P. Madsen, Antiquity pr&histor. du Dane- J. J. A. Worsaae, Nordiske Oldsager; Copen-marc; Copenhagen, 1873, PI. xxxi. No. 12. hagen, 1859, p. 13, No. 38. Chap. VII.] PERFORATED STONE HAMMERS. 439 No. 622 is a polished perforated stone hammer of black diorite : similarperforated stone hammers are found in England and Ireland,10 and arealso represented in the Markisches Museum at No. 624. Stone Hammer with groove.(Half actual size. Deptb, 29 ft.) No. 623 represents a hammer of porphyry of a very curious form, theperforation being at the thick end and not drilled, but evidently punchedout with a chisel. A very remarkable form of hammer is also representedby No. 624, which is of green gabbro-rock: here also the drilling of thehole, as the grooves on both sides denote, had commenced, but was againabandoned. I have not noticed that this peculiar shape with a furrowfor fastening the hammer to the handle with a thong ever occurs else-where. No. 625 represents another form of perforated hammer, of polishedporphyry : as the reader will see, the hole here tapers towards the middleof the stone. Hammers similar to this have been found in Virchow assures me that they are frequent in Germany. No. 626 is a hammer of silicious rock, of the same shape; but hereagain the perforation has been merely commenced on both sides, but isnot completed. Of nearly iden
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