. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. greyflint, 7 inches long, tapering from 2inches at edge to 1 inch at butt, ^ inchthick, semicircular at the butt and edge,the faces polished nearly all over, butthe sides sharp and left unground, was found during the Main DrainageWorks for London, and is in the British Museum. I have seen specimens of the same kind, with the sides straight andsharp though slightly rounded, tapering towards the butt, which is semi-circular, and varying in length from 5£ inches to 7£ inches long, foundat Alderton, Suffolk; Thorn Marsh, Yor
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. greyflint, 7 inches long, tapering from 2inches at edge to 1 inch at butt, ^ inchthick, semicircular at the butt and edge,the faces polished nearly all over, butthe sides sharp and left unground, was found during the Main DrainageWorks for London, and is in the British Museum. I have seen specimens of the same kind, with the sides straight andsharp though slightly rounded, tapering towards the butt, which is semi-circular, and varying in length from 5£ inches to 7£ inches long, foundat Alderton, Suffolk; Thorn Marsh, Yorkshire; Norton, near Malton;Westacre Hall, Norfolk ; and elsewhere. Mr. J. Brent, , has shownme a drawing of one about 7 inches long, found at Bigborough Wood,Tunford, Canterbury. The celt shown in Fig. 45 belongs to the same class, though it flatter at the sides. It is polished over the greater part of its sur-face, but is on one face quite unpolished at the edge. I have engravedit as an example of the manner in which, after the edge of a hatchet of. Fig. 44.—Coton, Cambridge. * Arch. Journ., ix. p. 194. Salisbury vol., p. 112. SHOWING A FACET AT THE EDGE. 93 this kind had become damaged by use, a fresh edge was obtained bychipping, which, in some instances, the owner of the implement was notat the pains to sharpen by grinding. Fig. 46 gives another variety of the flint celts with sharp or somewhatrounded sides. It is slightly ridged along each face, and the faces,instead of being uniformly convex to the edge, have at the lower part anearly flat facet of triangular form, the base of which forms the specimen was found at Great Bedwin, Wilts, and is in the collectionof the Rev. W. Green well, , of Durham. I have a nearly similar celt, 6^ inches long, found at Hepworth,Suffolk, but the facet at the edge is not quite so disitnct. I haveanother from Abingdon only 4£ inches long.
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