. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. character areoccasionally found in Ireland,! but the faces areusually flat. The exact form is rare in Denmark and NorthGermany. Lindenschmit j| engraves a thin speci-men from Liineburg. It occurs also in specimen from Lithuania, more square at the butt,is engraved by I do not remember tohave met with it in France. Id one of the barrows on Potter Brompton Wold,Yorkshire, explored by the Rev. W. Greenwell,, accompanying an interment by cremation,he found a beautifully formed axe-head of serpen-ti
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. character areoccasionally found in Ireland,! but the faces areusually flat. The exact form is rare in Denmark and NorthGermany. Lindenschmit j| engraves a thin speci-men from Liineburg. It occurs also in specimen from Lithuania, more square at the butt,is engraved by I do not remember tohave met with it in France. Id one of the barrows on Potter Brompton Wold,Yorkshire, explored by the Rev. W. Greenwell,, accompanying an interment by cremation,he found a beautifully formed axe-head of serpen-tine (?), the surface of which was in places scalingoff from decomposition, arising from its having beenpartly calcined. A single view is given of it in It is 5 inches long, and 2f inches broad ;the edge is 2 inches wide, a^ is also the butt; at theperforation the thickness is only 1^ inches, bothfaces being hollowed longitudinally. The hole isabout \\ inches in diameter on each face, but rathersmaller in the middle. The cutting edge has been rounded as well as. Fig. 126.—Potter BromptonWold, i * Troc. Soc. Ant., 2nd S. vol. iv. p. Journ., vol. xxiv. p. 29. f Arch. Assoc. Journ., vol. xxv. p. 272.§ Wilde, Cat. Mus. R. I. A., p. Materiaux, vol. i. p. 462. Salisbury vol. Arch. Inst., 1849, p. 110; % lEssai sur les Dolmens, pi. iv. u. h. V., vol. i. Hefti. Taf. i. 18. 174 PERFORATED AXES. [chap. vm. the angles round the faces, but this process has been carried to a greaterextent on one than the other; possibly this was the outer face. A somewhat similar, but rather broader, axe-head of basalt, 5£ incheslong, was found by the late Mr. T. Bateman in a barrow called CarderLow,* near Hartington, in company with a small bronze dagger, andnear the elbow of a contracted skeleton. Another, expanding rathftr more at the edge, was found in a barrowin Devonshire,! and is in the Meyrick Collection. A somewhat similar axe-head, more rounded at the butt and rath
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