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 . s of themcontained in my collection at the South Kensington Museum, declaresthem to consist of diorite, porphyry, serpentine, hornblende, gneiss, brownhaematite, silicious rock, or gabbro-rock. Most of these rude stonehammers bear the marks of long use, but a great many others appear tobe quite new. Similar rude hammers are found in almost all countries,but certainly nowhere in such an enormous
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 . s of themcontained in my collection at the South Kensington Museum, declaresthem to consist of diorite, porphyry, serpentine, hornblende, gneiss, brownhaematite, silicious rock, or gabbro-rock. Most of these rude stonehammers bear the marks of long use, but a great many others appear tobe quite new. Similar rude hammers are found in almost all countries,but certainly nowhere in such an enormous abundance as at shape of one such rude hammer, found at Scamridge, Yorkshire, andrepresented by Mr. John Evans,5 is the most frequent at Troy. Nos. 635 and 636 are two perforated and well-polished balls of ser-pentine ; but on the ball No. 637 the drilling of the perforation has onlycommenced and then been abandoned. The use of these serpentine balls 5 Ancient Stone Implements, &c, p. 221, fig. 166. 442 THE THIRD, THE BURNT CITY. [Chap. VII. is a riddle to us; may they perhaps have been attached to lassos forcatching cattle ? I am not aware that they have been found in Europe,.
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