. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. the East Riding ofYorkshire. It is formed of green hone-stone. Another, similar butthicker, and having the sides more convergent and the edge less oblique,was found at the same place and is in the same collection, in which alsois the fragment of a larger implement of the same class from Amotherby,near Malton, Yorkshire. Mr. Greenwell has another, 4f inches long, 2;^wide at the edge and If at butt, and 1^ inch thick, which was found ina barrow with a burnt interment on Seamer Moor, Yorkshire. It isapparently of clay-slate
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. the East Riding ofYorkshire. It is formed of green hone-stone. Another, similar butthicker, and having the sides more convergent and the edge less oblique,was found at the same place and is in the same collection, in which alsois the fragment of a larger implement of the same class from Amotherby,near Malton, Yorkshire. Mr. Greenwell has another, 4f inches long, 2;^wide at the edge and If at butt, and 1^ inch thick, which was found ina barrow with a burnt interment on Seamer Moor, Yorkshire. It isapparently of clay-slate which has become red by burning with the body. The Messrs. INIortimer have one of this form in greenstone, 5f long,found near Malton, and also one in flint, 4,\ long, found near Fimber. I have a well-finished celt of hone-stone, rather thicker proportionallythan that figured, 5 j inches long, and probably found in Cumberland, ithaving formed part of the Crosthwaite Collection at Keswick. The Greenwell, , has another of basalt, with straight sides, tapcr-. * Vol. xxvii. p. 2^8. 96 POLISHED CELTS. [chap. VI. ing from 2} inches at edge to If at butt, 9^ in length, and 1| thick,found in a peat moss at Cowshill-in-Weardale, Durham. A thin, flat form of celt, still presenting the same character of section,is represented in Fig. 51. The original is formed of a hard, nearly-black clay-slate, and was found at Oulston, in the North Hiding of York-shire. Like so many others which I have described, it is in the collec-tion of the Rev. W. Greenwell, , of Durham. A celt of greenstone, 4f inches long, of the same character, but thickerand with straighter sides, was found at Newton, Aberdeenshire, and isin the Antiquarian Museum at Edinburgh, where is also another, in out-
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