. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. er was found within it, and is formed witha central cavity on each face, to give the hand a better hold in similar appliance was found at Pen-y-Bonc,* in the same island. Hand-mills of granite formed in much the same manner have been inuse until lately in Brandenburg. The lower stones are described as from2 feet to 4 feet long, and nearly as wide, with channels, after long use,as much as 6 inches deep; the muller is either spherical or oval, andof such a size that it can be held in the A large sandstone
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. er was found within it, and is formed witha central cavity on each face, to give the hand a better hold in similar appliance was found at Pen-y-Bonc,* in the same island. Hand-mills of granite formed in much the same manner have been inuse until lately in Brandenburg. The lower stones are described as from2 feet to 4 feet long, and nearly as wide, with channels, after long use,as much as 6 inches deep; the muller is either spherical or oval, andof such a size that it can be held in the A large sandstone, with a small bowl-shaped concavity worked in it,was found near burnt bones in a barrow at Elkstone,J Staffordshire ; andtwo others in barrows near Sheen.§ Another, with a cup-shaped con-cavity, 2£ inches in diameter, occurred in a barrow near Pickering ; [| andin other barrows were found sandstone balls roughly chipped all over,from 4 inches to 1 inch in diameter, in one instance associated with abronze dagger. A ball of sandstone, 2£ inches in diameter, was found. Fig. 171.—Ty Mawr. with flint instruments accompanying a contracted skeleton in a barrownear A round stone like a cannon ball was also found ina barrow near Cromer,** and three balls of stone, from 2| inches toIf inches in diameter, were found in a camp at Weetwood,if Northum-berland. There are two other fori) s o? grinding apparatus still in use—thepestle and mortar, and the rotatory mill—both of which date back toan early period, and concerning which it will be well to say a fewwords in this place. The ordinary form of pestle—a frustum of uvery elongated cone with the ends rounded—is so well known thatit appears needless to engrave a specimen on the same scale as the * Arch. Joum., vol. xxiv. p. Ten Years Diggings, p. Ibid., pp. 213, 224, 226.** Arch. Joum., vol. vii. p. 190. f Kirchner, Thoia Donnerkeil, 1853, p. 97. § Ibid., p. 177. f Vestiges Ant. IVrb, p. 99, ft Avch. J
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