. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. - no means improbablethat some of these ruder unpolished implements were employed inagriculture, like the so-called shovels and hoes of flint of NorthAmerica, described by Professor Rau. I have a flat celt-likeimplement about six and a half inches long and three inches broad,found in Cayuga County, New York, which, though unground, hasits broad end beautifully polished on both faces, apparently bv. Ovmg, near Cliiehester. 64 CHIPPED OR ROUGH-HEWN CELTS. [chap. IV. friction of the silty soil in wliich it has been used as
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. - no means improbablethat some of these ruder unpolished implements were employed inagriculture, like the so-called shovels and hoes of flint of NorthAmerica, described by Professor Rau. I have a flat celt-likeimplement about six and a half inches long and three inches broad,found in Cayuga County, New York, which, though unground, hasits broad end beautifully polished on both faces, apparently bv. Ovmg, near Cliiehester. 64 CHIPPED OR ROUGH-HEWN CELTS. [chap. IV. friction of the silty soil in wliich it has been used as a hoe. It is,as Professor Ran has pointed out in other cases, slightly striatedin the direction in which the implement penetrated the ground.* The implement represented in Fig. 16, rude as it is, is more sym-metrical and more carefully chipped than many of this class. I found it, with several other worked flints,on the surface of the soil in a fieldbetween Newhaven and Telscombe,Sussex. At the place where I dis-covered it, had formerly stood abarrow, one of a group of four,the positions of which are shownon the Ordnance Map, though theyare now all levelled to the is of course possible that suchan implement may have been merelyblocked out, with the intention offinisbing it by subsequent chippingand grinding, and that it was notintended for use in its present con-dition. Or it may possibly have beendeposited in the tumulus as a votiveoffering, or in compl
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