. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. stone axe-head, various implements of bone, a bronze pin or awl,and other objects. Another occurred in a barrow at Everley,f with abronze chisel, an unused whetstone of freestone, and a hone of bluishcolour; and another with a skeleton, a stone hammer, a bronze celt, abone tube, and various other articles in a barrow at Twoor three of these sharpening-stones, found in a barrow at Roundway,near Devizes, are in the Museum of the Wilts Archaeological Society. Sir R. C. Hoare considered whetstones of this kind to
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. stone axe-head, various implements of bone, a bronze pin or awl,and other objects. Another occurred in a barrow at Everley,f with abronze chisel, an unused whetstone of freestone, and a hone of bluishcolour; and another with a skeleton, a stone hammer, a bronze celt, abone tube, and various other articles in a barrow at Twoor three of these sharpening-stones, found in a barrow at Roundway,near Devizes, are in the Museum of the Wilts Archaeological Society. Sir R. C. Hoare considered whetstones of this kind to have been usedfor sharpening and bringing to a point pins and other implements ofbone, and they seem well adapted for such a purpose, and are still soused by the Esquimaux. They may also have served for smoothing theshafts of arrows. The Rev. W. C. Lukis, , found a similar stone, 4£ inches long,in a barrow in Brittany. Stones of the same form have been found in * Hoares South Wilts, p. 75. Arch., vol. xv. p. 125. f Hoare, S. W., p. 182. J Op. cit., p. 209. 17. 242 GRINDING-STONES AND WHETSTONES. [CHAP. XI. • Germany, two of which from the cemetery uear Monsheim * are preservedin the Museum at Mainz. They are rather more elongated than theEnglish examples. An object found with polished stone instruments inthe cave Casa da Moura, Portugal,! not improbably belongs to this classof grooved sharpening-stones. From their association with bronze objects, they appear to belong tothe Bronze rather than to the Stone Period, and the same holds goodwith the more ordinary form of whetstone, of which an example is givenin iig. 186. The original was found in the tumulus at Hove,J near Brighton, which contained the stone axe-head already mentioned, a beautiful ambercup, and a bronze dagger. Another, of com-pact red sandstone, 3f inches long, with theFig. 186.—Hove. | perforated end rounded, was found in abarrow on Bow Hill, § Sussex, and is now in the British , 3 inche
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