. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. on of , presents a very remarkableform, which, at first sight, has the appear-ance of being a chisel or hatchet, with alarge tang, intended for insertion in asocket. The lower part is symmetricallychipped, like the cutting end of a narrowA celt, with sharp sides, such as Fig. 26 ;but at a point a little more than half-wayalong the blade, it rapidly expands, so asto have an almost circular section. Muchas I am tempted to regard this as pre-senting a special type, I am almost con-vinced that the form is due rat
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. on of , presents a very remarkableform, which, at first sight, has the appear-ance of being a chisel or hatchet, with alarge tang, intended for insertion in asocket. The lower part is symmetricallychipped, like the cutting end of a narrowA celt, with sharp sides, such as Fig. 26 ;but at a point a little more than half-wayalong the blade, it rapidly expands, so asto have an almost circular section. Muchas I am tempted to regard this as pre-senting a special type, I am almost con-vinced that the form is due rather to acci-dent than design. It appears to me thata piece of flint, partially chipped into shapefor a larger and thicker celt, had beenbroken in the process of manufacture, anda second attempt bad been made to convertit into a celt, this time of smaller lower part of this was successfullychipped out, but on arriving at that por-Fig. 29.—Cissbury. $ tion of the blade where the section wasnearly circular, the flint was either so refractory, or the projections. OF THE SAME AGE AS THE POLISHED. 75 on which blows could be administered to detach splinters were so small,that the manufacture was abandoned, not, however, before many blowshad been fruitlessly struck, as the sides and projections on the face ofthe celt at this part are considerably battered. An interesting instance of the discovery of a flint celt, merelychipped out, but associated with polished celts and other objects, isrecorded in the Archceologia* and by In a barrow on UptonLovel Down, opened by Mr. W. Cunnington in 1802, was a grave ofoval fo»m, containing a large skeleton lying on its back, and slightlyon one side, and above it a smaller skeleton in a contracted the feet of the larger skeleton were more than three dozenperforated pins and other instruments of bone, and three celtsof white flint, two of which were neatly polished, with a finecircular edge ; and the third was only chipp
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