. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. Fig. 86.—Weston, Fig. 87.—\ I k 1 other direction WITH DEPRESSIONS ON THE FACES. 127 faces. Such recesses are by no means uncommon on the stones intendedfor use as hammers; and further on (p. 217) I have engraved ahammer-stone of this class, which M^ould seem to have been originally acelt such as this, but which has entirely lost any approach to an edgeby continual battering. In Mr. Mortimers specimen the edge is fairlysharp, though it has lost some splinters from off it in ancient times. In the same collection
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. Fig. 86.—Weston, Fig. 87.—\ I k 1 other direction WITH DEPRESSIONS ON THE FACES. 127 faces. Such recesses are by no means uncommon on the stones intendedfor use as hammers; and further on (p. 217) I have engraved ahammer-stone of this class, which M^ould seem to have been originally acelt such as this, but which has entirely lost any approach to an edgeby continual battering. In Mr. Mortimers specimen the edge is fairlysharp, though it has lost some splinters from off it in ancient times. In the same collection is another specimen, found near Fimber, formedof a green metamorphic rock. The butt-end is ground flat, and the sides nearlyso. There is a slight depression workedon each face. The edge is slightlyrounded, and shows longitudinal the owners kindness I am able toengrave it as Fig. 88. In Colonel A. Lane Foxs collectionis a celt from Hindostan, with a cup-shaped depression on one of its faces. In the extensive collection of the Greenwell, , so often referredto, is another r
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