. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. ecomes oval near the butt-end. I have a smaller example of this type in clay-slate, 3£ inches long andIf wide at the edge, found at Carnaby, near Bridlington. The butt-endis in this case rectangular in section. It closely resembles the flat-sided * Horae Ferales. pi. ii. 14. t Froc. As. Soc. Bcng., Sept., 1870. Proe. Ethnol. Soc, 1870, p. lxii. 104 POLISHED CELTS. [CHAP. VI. hatchets so commonly found in France. I have an Irish celt of thesame form found near Armagh, and made of clay-slate. Flat-sided celtsare, however,
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. ecomes oval near the butt-end. I have a smaller example of this type in clay-slate, 3£ inches long andIf wide at the edge, found at Carnaby, near Bridlington. The butt-endis in this case rectangular in section. It closely resembles the flat-sided * Horae Ferales. pi. ii. 14. t Froc. As. Soc. Bcng., Sept., 1870. Proe. Ethnol. Soc, 1870, p. lxii. 104 POLISHED CELTS. [CHAP. VI. hatchets so commonly found in France. I have an Irish celt of thesame form found near Armagh, and made of clay-slate. Flat-sided celtsare, however, rare in Ireland. A celt of grey flint, of much the same outline, but having the sidesrounded and not flat, and the butt brought to a straight sharp edge,was found in Burwell Fen, and is now in the Christy Collection. It is4£ inches long, and 2£ wide at the edge. A celt of the same section, but of peculiar form, with the sides curvedslightly inwards, and tapering considerably to the butt, is shown inFig. 57. The sides are flat, but have the angles slightly rounded: a. Fig. 57.—Nunnington, Yorkshire narrow, flattened face is ^carried round the butt-end. It would appearto have been made from a calcareous nodule found in some argillaceousbed, like the septaria in the London clay. Both of its faces present aseries of diverging cracks, of slight depth, apparently resulting from thedissolution of calcareous veins in the stone. It was found at Nunning-ton, Yorkshire, and is in the collection of the Rev. W. Greenwell, original of Fig. 58 was discovered at Burradon, Northumberland,where also the fine flint celt, Fig. 47, was found. This likewise is inthe same collection. It is of porphyritic stone, and has the angles ofthe flat sides slightly rounded. Another, in the same collection. 4 inches WITH FLAT SIDES AND NOT OF FLINT. 105 long, from Doddington, in the same county, is of similar of much the same character and size have been found in theShetland Isles
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