. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. III Fig. 221.—Yorkshire Wolds. slighter, but less symmetrical. I have from the same district another largediscoidal scraper, If inches in diameter, and chipped all round, with arounded projection, about f inch wide, left at the thicker end of theflake. The Rev. W. Greenwell has specimens of the same character asFig. 221, found near Rudstone. A nearly similar implement, in the Museum of the Royal Irish Aca-demy, has been engraved by Sir W. Some of the large Danish scrapers are provided with a sort of handle,and ha
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. III Fig. 221.—Yorkshire Wolds. slighter, but less symmetrical. I have from the same district another largediscoidal scraper, If inches in diameter, and chipped all round, with arounded projection, about f inch wide, left at the thicker end of theflake. The Rev. W. Greenwell has specimens of the same character asFig. 221, found near Rudstone. A nearly similar implement, in the Museum of the Royal Irish Aca-demy, has been engraved by Sir W. Some of the large Danish scrapers are provided with a sort of handle,and have been termed by WorsaaeJ skee-formet, or spoon-shaped. It will be well now to refer to some of the published notices of thediscovery of these implements, which seem to have met with little atten-tion from antiquaries until within the last few years. There is, how-ever, in the British Museum a fine horseshoe-shaped scraper, which wasfound by the late Dr. Mantell, in company with broken urns and ashes, * P. 287. t Cat. Mus. P. I. A., fig. 8. t Nord. Olds., No. 29. 27
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