. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. e has been more successfully efiected in the case ofthe celt shown in Fig. 92, which is engraved from a photographkindly supplied me by Mr. Pt. D. Darbishire, The circum-* Vol. iv. p. 112. t Stone Age, Eng. ed., p. 65. IN THEIR ORIGINAL HANDLES. 139 stances of the discovery are not yet publislied, but I am at libertyto state that it was found in peat which had once formed the bedof a tarn or small lake in Cumberland, which has now beendrained. With it were found another haft of the same character,and several stone
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. e has been more successfully efiected in the case ofthe celt shown in Fig. 92, which is engraved from a photographkindly supplied me by Mr. Pt. D. Darbishire, The circum-* Vol. iv. p. 112. t Stone Age, Eng. ed., p. 65. IN THEIR ORIGINAL HANDLES. 139 stances of the discovery are not yet publislied, but I am at libertyto state that it was found in peat which had once formed the bedof a tarn or small lake in Cumberland, which has now beendrained. With it were found another haft of the same character,and several stone celts, one of them nearly 15 inches in length,with the sides but slightly curved, and almost equally broad ateach end. Some wooden paddles and clubs, pottery and otherobjects, were also found. The farmer who cultivates the formerbed of the lake had previously discovered some stone antiquities,which were brought under the notice of Mr. A. W. Franks,, who induced Mr. Darbishire to make the search whichhas been so amply rewarded. It will be observed that the end of. FiS. 92.—Cumberland. the handle has originally been recurved, possibly with the view ofsteadpng the bvitt-end of the celt. Curiously enough, in theoutline of a celt in its handle, carved on the under side of theroof-stone of a dolmen, known as La Table des Marchands, nearLocmariaker, Brittany,* the end of the handle seems also to becurved back beyond the socket for the blade, which, however, itdoes not touch. At the other end of the handle there is a looplike a sword guard, for the insertion of the hand. There is some little difficulty in determining the exact form ofthis incised carving, as the lines are shallow, and the light does notfall upon them. I speak from a sketch I made on the spot in 1863. In the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy f is a drawing of acelt in its handle (which is apparently of pine) found in the county * Rev. Arch., vol. x^^ii. p. 268. f Wildes Cat. Mus. R. T. A, p. 46. 140 POTJSHED CE
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