. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. are concavelongitudinally, so that it expands towards the edges. They are alsoslightly concave transversely. The angles are rounded, and the edgesare blunt, especially that at the shorter end. The shaft-hole is oval, andtapers slightly from each face towards the middle. It would appear tohave been worked out with some sort of chisel, and to have been after-wards made smoother by grinding. A specimen of nearly the same type, found near Uelzen, Hanover, isengraved by Von Estorff;* another, from Sweden, by In the
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. are concavelongitudinally, so that it expands towards the edges. They are alsoslightly concave transversely. The angles are rounded, and the edgesare blunt, especially that at the shorter end. The shaft-hole is oval, andtapers slightly from each face towards the middle. It would appear tohave been worked out with some sort of chisel, and to have been after-wards made smoother by grinding. A specimen of nearly the same type, found near Uelzen, Hanover, isengraved by Von Estorff;* another, from Sweden, by In the Museum at Geneva is a very similar axe of greenstone, 5^inches long, found in the neighbourhood of that town. One of serpen-tine much longer in its proportions, 9^ inches long, and with an ovalshaft-hole, is in the Museum at Lausanne. It was found at Agiez,Canton de Vaud. In the Collections J published by the Sussex Archaeological Society isa figure, obligingly lent me, of a beautiful axe-head of this class,Fig. 119, found with the remains of a skeleton, an amber cup,. Fig. 119—Hove. ; Fig. 367, a whetstone, Fig. 186, ana a miaii bronze dagger withtwo rivet holes, in an oaken coffin in a barrow at Hove, near axe-head is said to be formed of some kind of ironstone, andis 5 inches long, l^o inches wide in the broadest part, and -f$ inchthick. The hole is described as neatly drilled. A small black stoneaxe-head of nearly similar form was found near the head of a con-tracted skeleton, at a depth of twelve feet, in a barrow in Rolston Field,Wilts. § A somewhat similar specimen, with the sides faceted andblunt at one end, has been engraved as having been found in Yorkshire. ||It is, however, doubtful whether, like many other objects in the sameplate, it is not foreign. The original is now in the Christy Collection. A double-edged axe-head of basalt, 4^- inches long, and injured by fire,was found by the late Mr. Bateman, in a large urn with calcined bones,bone pins, a
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