. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. possess from the West Indian Islands,that for some time I hesitated to engrave it. There are, however,sufficiently numerous instances of other implements of the same form having been found in this country for the type tobe accepted as British. The celt found at Glas-gow,* in a canoe at a depth of twenty-five feetbelow the surface, was of this kind. The Greenwell, , possesses one of por-phyritic greenstone, 7 inches long and 3 incheswide, and of nearly this form,, found at Grant-chester, Cambridge. Two celts
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. possess from the West Indian Islands,that for some time I hesitated to engrave it. There are, however,sufficiently numerous instances of other implements of the same form having been found in this country for the type tobe accepted as British. The celt found at Glas-gow,* in a canoe at a depth of twenty-five feetbelow the surface, was of this kind. The Greenwell, , possesses one of por-phyritic greenstone, 7 inches long and 3 incheswide, and of nearly this form,, found at Grant-chester, Cambridge. Two celts of this character,the one from Jamaica and the other from theNorth of Italy, are engraved in the Archa:olof/ia.\I have specimens of the same type fromvarious parts of France. Mr. Greenwell hasa Spanish celt of the same form found nearCadiz. The bulk of the celts found in Ireland, andformed of other materials than flint, approximatein form to Figs. 69 to 75, though they are usuallyrather thinner in their proportions. They range,however, widely in shape, and vary much in. Fig. 75.—Caithness. their degree of finish. I now come to the fourth of the subdivisions under which, mainly for the sake of having some basis- for classification, I have arranged the polished celts. In it I have placed those which present any abnormal peculiarities ; and the first of these which I shall notice are such as do not materially affect the outline of the celts; as, for instance, the existence of a second cutting edge at the butt-end, at a part where, though the blade is usually tapered away and ground, yet it very rarely happens that it has been left sharp. Indeed, in almost all cases, if in shaping and polishing the celt the butt-end has at one time been sharpened, the edge has been afterwards carefully removed by grinding it awav. The beautifully formed implement of ochreously stained flint repre-sented in Fig. 76 was found at Gilmerton, in East Lothian, and ispreserved in the Antiquarian Museum
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