. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. lint, quite whitened by exposure,and was found by myself upon the downs near Eastbourne in 1852,being the first stone implement I ever discovered. I have since founda similar but larger celt in a field of my own at Abbots Langley, is 4£ inches long, and the edge has been intentionally blunted bygrinding, so that it was possibly a battle-axe. I have some otherspecimens which appear to have been made from fragments of largerpolished celts. One of these, found near Icklingham, 2j inches wide and2 ; inches long, is
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. lint, quite whitened by exposure,and was found by myself upon the downs near Eastbourne in 1852,being the first stone implement I ever discovered. I have since founda similar but larger celt in a field of my own at Abbots Langley, is 4£ inches long, and the edge has been intentionally blunted bygrinding, so that it was possibly a battle-axe. I have some otherspecimens which appear to have been made from fragments of largerpolished celts. One of these, found near Icklingham, 2j inches wide and2 ; inches long, is almost pear-shaped in outline, but truncated at the butt,where it is about an inch wide. I have several similar implements fromFrance and Belgium, the butt-ends of which are battered, as if they hadbeen used as wedges. ADAPTATION OF A NATURAL PRISM. 79 The original of Fig. 31 is curious in another aspect, it having beenshaped, with the exception of the edge, entirely by nature, and not by tendency of certain kinds of flint to split up into more or less regular.
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