. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. Fig. 262.—Walls, Shetland. The specimens I have engraved as Figs. 262 and 263 are both in theMuseum of the Society of Antiquaries. They are formed of thin laminae 310 TRIMMED FLAKES, KNIVES, ETC. [CHAP. XV. of madreporite, and are sharp all round.* They are said to have beenfound with fourteen others at the depth of six feet in a peat-moss, thewhole of them being arranged in a horizontal line, and overlapping eachother like slates upon the roof of a house. There are several specimensformed of felspathic rocks, and from v
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. Fig. 262.—Walls, Shetland. The specimens I have engraved as Figs. 262 and 263 are both in theMuseum of the Society of Antiquaries. They are formed of thin laminae 310 TRIMMED FLAKES, KNIVES, ETC. [CHAP. XV. of madreporite, and are sharp all round.* They are said to have beenfound with fourteen others at the depth of six feet in a peat-moss, thewhole of them being arranged in a horizontal line, and overlapping eachother like slates upon the roof of a house. There are several specimensformed of felspathic rocks, and from various localities in Shetland, pre-served in the British Museum. A note attached to one of them statesthat twelve were found in Easterskild, in the parish of Sandsting. Anengraving of one of them is given in the Horse Ferales. j In the Antiquarian Museum at Edinburgh J are other examples, alsofrom Shetland. Profess r Daniel Wilson § states that a considerable. Fig. 263.—Walls, Shetland. £ number of implements, mostly of the same class, were found under theclay in the ancient mosses of Blair-Drummond and Meiklewood. Thereare some fine specimens from Shetland in the Ethnological Museum atCopenhagen. There can be little doubt of those implements having been cuttingtools for holding in the hand, though they have been described by and the Rev. Mr. Bryden, || in The Statistical Account of Zetland,as double or single-edged battle-axes. They appear, however, as Mr. * Cat. Ant. Soc. Ant., p. 14. Cat, A. I. Mus. Ed., p. 7- + PL ii. 15. X Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., vol. iii. p. 437; iv. p. 52. § Pren- Ann., vol. i. p. 184. || Statist. Account of Zetland, 1841, p. 112, et seqq., quoted at length in Soc. Lond., vol. ii. p. 315. The late Dr. Hunt appears to have thoughtthat the passage referred to rude pestle-like stone implements such as he found inOrkney, and not to these knives. DAGGERS OR LANCE-HEADS. 311 Albert Way* has point
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