. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. Fig. 30.—Downs near Easlbourne. Fig. 31.—Culford, Suffolk, * prisms by assuming a sort of columnar structure, much like that whichis exhibited by starch in drying, is well known. The maker of thisimplement has judiciously selected one of these prisms, which required nomore than a moderate amount of grinding at one end to convert it into aneat and useful tool. It was found at Culford, in Suffolk, and formerlybelonged to Mr. Warren, of Ixworth, but is now in my own collection. The celt represented in Fig. 32 is alsomine, a
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. Fig. 30.—Downs near Easlbourne. Fig. 31.—Culford, Suffolk, * prisms by assuming a sort of columnar structure, much like that whichis exhibited by starch in drying, is well known. The maker of thisimplement has judiciously selected one of these prisms, which required nomore than a moderate amount of grinding at one end to convert it into aneat and useful tool. It was found at Culford, in Suffolk, and formerlybelonged to Mr. Warren, of Ixworth, but is now in my own collection. The celt represented in Fig. 32 is alsomine, and was found in the same neighbour-hood, near Mildenhall. It is pointed andentirely unpolished at the butt-end, which,had that part only been preserved, wouldhave had all the appearance of being thepoint of an implement of the Palaeolithicperiod. It is, however, ground to a thincircular edge at the broad end. Another,nearly similar, from Burwell Fen, is in theMuseum of the Cambridge Antiquarian So-ciety. I have another, rather straighter atthe edge, but even more s
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