. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. of flint,are extremely rare. The reason for this appears to be, that from themethod in which, in this country, flint celts were chipped out, the sideswere in all cases originally sharp, and they had a pointed oval, or vesicapiscis, section. In polishing, this form was to a great extent preserved,though the edges were, as has been seen, sometimes ground flat andsometimes rounded. It rarely happens, however, that the rounding iscarried to so great an extent as to produce such a contour that it is impos-sible to say within
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. of flint,are extremely rare. The reason for this appears to be, that from themethod in which, in this country, flint celts were chipped out, the sideswere in all cases originally sharp, and they had a pointed oval, or vesicapiscis, section. In polishing, this form was to a great extent preserved,though the edges were, as has been seen, sometimes ground flat andsometimes rounded. It rarely happens, however, that the rounding iscarried to so great an extent as to produce such a contour that it is impos-sible to say within a little where the faces end, and the sides begin, thoughthis is often the case with celts of greenstone and other materials, whichwere shaped out in a somewhat ditferent manner, and in the formation olwhich grinding played a more conspicuous part. It is almost needless tosay that I use the Avord oval in its popular sense, and not as significantof a mathematically true ellipse. At the part where the edge of the celtscommences, the section is of course a vesica
Size: 1028px × 2431px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorevansjoh, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870, bookyear1872
