. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. ere, near Bury St. Edmunds. It is formed of a close-grainedgreenstone, and is in my own collection, Xhe angles at the sides areslightly rounded. I have another hatchetof the same size and of similar material,with the angles left sharp, found nearCirencester. Greenstone celts of aboutthis size, and with the sides more orless flat, so as to range between and 53, are of not uncommon occur-rence in the Fen country. Mr. Fisher,of Ely, has one, found near Manea, andseveral from Bottisham. I have one, oifelstone, 3£ inc
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. ere, near Bury St. Edmunds. It is formed of a close-grainedgreenstone, and is in my own collection, Xhe angles at the sides areslightly rounded. I have another hatchetof the same size and of similar material,with the angles left sharp, found nearCirencester. Greenstone celts of aboutthis size, and with the sides more orless flat, so as to range between and 53, are of not uncommon occur-rence in the Fen country. Mr. Fisher,of Ely, has one, found near Manea, andseveral from Bottisham. I have one, oifelstone, 3£ inches long, found at Coton,Cambs., one side of which presents aflat surface f inch wide, while the otheris but slightly flattened. A still more triangular form, moreconvex on the faces, and having thesquare sides much narrower, is shownin Fig. 60, from a specimen in the co1-lection of the Rev. W. Greenwell, A., Fi«- , Northumberland. *found at Ilderton, Northumberland. It is formed of a hard, slaty rockor hone-stone. The angles of the sides are rounded,. 106 POLISHED CELTS. [CHAP. VI. m I M M Mi mm - ?: ? jTV1 m $ In the Antiquarian Museum at Edinburgh are two implements ofgreenstone, 2$ and 3 inches long, of nearly similar form to Fig. 60, buthaving the sides sharp. They were found in the Isle of Skye.* A smaller celt of the same cha-racter, 2h inches long, found in acairn at Brindy Hill, Aberdeenshire,!is in the British Museum. One, 21 inches long, formed ofhaematite, or touchstone, from Sar-&is,l in Lydia, and in the samecollection, is of much the sameform, but rounder at the sides andless pointed at the butt. Implements of the form repre-sented in Fig. 61 occur most fre-quently in the northern part ofBritain, especially in Cumberlandand Westmoreland, in consequence,it may be supposed, of the felspathicrocks, of which they are usuallyformed, being there found in thegreatest abundance. That herefigured is in the British Museum. Itis of mottled close-grained st
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