. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. Fig. 12.—Near No;ir Mildenhall. and slightly curved in the direction of the length. It is rounded at thebutt, but nearly square at the cutting edge, which is formed by thejunction of two facets, from which flakes have been struck off. I haveseen others of the same character from near the Bartlow Hills, Cambs.,and from Sussex. Others, from 4f to 6 inches in length, from Burwell,Wicken, and Bottisham Fens, are preserved in the Museum of the Cam-bridge Antiquarian Society, and in my own collection. The Kev.

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. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. Fig. 12.—Near No;ir Mildenhall. and slightly curved in the direction of the length. It is rounded at thebutt, but nearly square at the cutting edge, which is formed by thejunction of two facets, from which flakes have been struck off. I haveseen others of the same character from near the Bartlow Hills, Cambs.,and from Sussex. Others, from 4f to 6 inches in length, from Burwell,Wicken, and Bottisham Fens, are preserved in the Museum of the Cam-bridge Antiquarian Society, and in my own collection. The Kev. , , has a specimen Tf inches long, from Burnt Fen,I have also a French implement of this kind from the neighbourhoodof Abbeville. Implements with the peculiar edge, of the same character, are foundin Denmark. Indeed, the edges of the common form of Kjokken-moddingaxes* are usually produced in the same manner, by the intersection oftwo facets, each formed by a single blow, though the resulting edge isgenerally nearly straight. Closely approaching this Danish form is that of a celt o

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