. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. ormed by thejunction of two facets, from which flakes have been struck off. I haveseen others of the same character from near the Bartlow Hills, Cambs.,and from Sussex. Others, from 4f to 6 inches in length, from Burwell,Wicken, and Bottisham Fens, are preserved in the Museum of the Cam-bridge Antiquarian Society, and in my own collection. The Kev. , , has a specimen Tf inches long, from Burnt Fen,I have also a French implement of this kind from the neighbourhoodof Abbeville. Implements with the peculiar
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. ormed by thejunction of two facets, from which flakes have been struck off. I haveseen others of the same character from near the Bartlow Hills, Cambs.,and from Sussex. Others, from 4f to 6 inches in length, from Burwell,Wicken, and Bottisham Fens, are preserved in the Museum of the Cam-bridge Antiquarian Society, and in my own collection. The Kev. , , has a specimen Tf inches long, from Burnt Fen,I have also a French implement of this kind from the neighbourhoodof Abbeville. Implements with the peculiar edge, of the same character, are foundin Denmark. Indeed, the edges of the common form of Kjokken-moddingaxes* are usually produced in the same manner, by the intersection oftwo facets, each formed by a single blow, though the resulting edge isgenerally nearly straight. Closely approaching this Danish form is that of a celt of brown flint, K(jl. Danske Jidensk. Selskabs Forhand., 1861, Fis Madsen, Afbild., pi. iii. 1 to 62 CHIPrED OR ROUGIl-HEWN CELTS. [chap. Pig. 14.—Neai- Thctford. shown in Fig. 14, and found near Thetford by Mr. J. W. Flower, , with one face nearly flat, and the edgeformed by a single transverse facet. Theimplements, however, of this type, with thechisel edge, are rarely met with in thiscountry; and, generally speaking, axessimilar to those which occur in such num-bers in the Danish Kjcikken-moddings andCoast-finds are of very rare occurrenceelsewhere. I have, however, a small nearlytriangular hatchet of the Danish type, andAvith the sides bruised in the same manner(probably with a view of preventing theircutting the ligaments by which the instru-ments were attached to their handles, orpossibly to prevent their cutting the handwhen held), which I found in the circularencampment known as Maiden Bower, nearDunstable, where also I have discoveredmany other antiquities in stone. Hatchets of this type have also beenfound in the neighbourhood of
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