. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. inches at edge to If at butt, 9^ in length, and 1| thick,found in a peat moss at Cowshill-in-Weardale, Durham. A thin, flat form of celt, still presenting the same character of section,is represented in Fig. 51. The original is formed of a hard, nearly-black clay-slate, and was found at Oulston, in the North Hiding of York-shire. Like so many others which I have described, it is in the collec-tion of the Rev. W. Greenwell, , of Durham. A celt of greenstone, 4f inches long, of the same character, but thickerand with

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. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. inches at edge to If at butt, 9^ in length, and 1| thick,found in a peat moss at Cowshill-in-Weardale, Durham. A thin, flat form of celt, still presenting the same character of section,is represented in Fig. 51. The original is formed of a hard, nearly-black clay-slate, and was found at Oulston, in the North Hiding of York-shire. Like so many others which I have described, it is in the collec-tion of the Rev. W. Greenwell, , of Durham. A celt of greenstone, 4f inches long, of the same character, but thickerand with straighter sides, was found at Newton, Aberdeenshire, and isin the Antiquarian Museum at Edinburgh, where is also another, in out-.

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