. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. ^ inches long, found at ClifiHill, is in the Museum at Lei-cester. A few specimens of this form,both unground and ground merelyat the edge, have already beenmentioned, and specimens en-graved, as Figs. 21 and expanding towards theedge are of more common occur-rence in Denmark than in thiscountry, though even there theyare rather rare when the expan-sion is well defined. The next specimens I shalldescribe are principally made ofother materials than Hint. Fig. 48, in my own collection, is\ of porphyritic greens
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. ^ inches long, found at ClifiHill, is in the Museum at Lei-cester. A few specimens of this form,both unground and ground merelyat the edge, have already beenmentioned, and specimens en-graved, as Figs. 21 and expanding towards theedge are of more common occur-rence in Denmark than in thiscountry, though even there theyare rather rare when the expan-sion is well defined. The next specimens I shalldescribe are principally made ofother materials than Hint. Fig. 48, in my own collection, is\ of porphyritic greenstone, and wasIt is polished all over, equally convexon both faces, and has the sides rather more rounded than most of thoseof nearly similar section in flint. The butt is rather sharper than thesides. I have an analogous implement, but with the sides straighter andrather more converging towards the butt. It was found at Nunnington,Yorkshire, and was presented to me by Mr. Charles Monkman, of have been found in the same district. * xxvii. pi. X. 1, p. Fijr. 47.—Burradon, Ndrtluiiiiberliiiicl. found at Coton, Cambridgeshire. OF OTHER MATERIALS THAN FLINT. 95 Other specimens of greenstone have been found in the Fens, some ofwhich are in the Museum of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. In the Newcastle Museum is acompact greenstone celt of thischaracter, 51; inches long, with theedge slightly oblique, found at Pen-rith Beacon, Cumberland. Implements of this class are fre-quently more tapering at the buttthan the one shown in the have several such from the Cam-bridge Fens, and have seen an ex-ample from Towcester (Mr. S. Sharp,). One of flint, 4 inches long,so much rounded at the edge as tobe almost oval in outline, found nearMildenhall, is in the Christy Col-lection. Mr. J. F. Lucas has oneof greenstone, 4J inches long, fromWormhill, Derbyshire. Fig. 49, of dark grey whinstone,is of much the same character, buthas an oblique cutting edge. Thebut
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