. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. Fig. 33.—Sjuvduii, North Yorkshire. THE LONG NARROW FORM. 81 in the former examples, especially on one of the faces, and the asperitiesof the sides have in places been removed by the same process. Abouthalf-way along the blade, some of the facets have been polished byfriction. The Rev. W. Greenwell, , has a beautiful specimen 8| incheslong, 2 inches broad at edge, and J inch at butt, and nowhere more thanf inch thick. It is most skilfully chipped, and the grinding extends only ^-^^. Fig. 34.—Weston, Norfolk. \ \ in
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. Fig. 33.—Sjuvduii, North Yorkshire. THE LONG NARROW FORM. 81 in the former examples, especially on one of the faces, and the asperitiesof the sides have in places been removed by the same process. Abouthalf-way along the blade, some of the facets have been polished byfriction. The Rev. W. Greenwell, , has a beautiful specimen 8| incheslong, 2 inches broad at edge, and J inch at butt, and nowhere more thanf inch thick. It is most skilfully chipped, and the grinding extends only ^-^^. Fig. 34.—Weston, Norfolk. \ \ inch back from the edge. The sides have been made straight bygrinding, and are slightly rounded. It was found at Kinlochew, Ross-shire. Another in the same collection, 9;^ inches long, and ^% inchesbroad at the edge, was found at Kilham, in the East Riding of York-shire. I have seen one 8 inches long. If inches wide at the edge, and1 inch at the butt, which was found at Leighton Buzzard. I have two shorter specimens, about the same breadth as Fig. 34 atthe cutting edge, and 5^ inches and 5f inches long, from the neighbour- G 82 GROUND AT THE EDGE ONLY. [chap. hood of Bury St. Edmunds and Mildenhall. They do not, however,present any of the polished marks. The sides of both have to a certainextent been made straight by grinding. One of these with the naturalcrust of the flint still left at the butt-end is shown in Fig. 35. I havetwo of much the same form from Carnaby Moor and liings Field, near Bridlington, procured by Mr. E. Tindall;and another fr
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