. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. f, was found in the Thames, near Kew, and is inthe possession of T. Layton, Esq.,- In the circular socketwas a portion of a tine of stags horn, so that it seems rather tohave been intended for mounting such tines for use as picks thanfor hafting celts. A celt, mounted in a socket of stags horn, bored through toreceive the wooden shaft, found in the Lake-dwellings at Concise,and in the collection of Dr. Clement, has been engraved by Desor; +and another, found near Aerschot,§ in Belgium, by Le Hon. Another method of
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. f, was found in the Thames, near Kew, and is inthe possession of T. Layton, Esq.,- In the circular socketwas a portion of a tine of stags horn, so that it seems rather tohave been intended for mounting such tines for use as picks thanfor hafting celts. A celt, mounted in a socket of stags horn, bored through toreceive the wooden shaft, found in the Lake-dwellings at Concise,and in the collection of Dr. Clement, has been engraved by Desor; +and another, found near Aerschot,§ in Belgium, by Le Hon. Another method of hafting, adopted by the Swiss Lake-dwellersfor their stone hatchets, is described by Dr. Keller, || from whosework I have copied the above woodcut, Fig. 100. * B. de Perthes Antiqaites Oltiques, &c, vol. i. p. 282, pi. i., Arch. Assoc. Jonrn., vol. iv. p. 105. Supra, p. Palnfittes, fig. 18.§ LHomme Fo^sile, 2nd ed., p. 149r || Lake Dwellings, Eng. ed., p. 110. See also pi. x. 16, xi. 2, and xxviii. 24 ;and Lindenschmit, Hohenz. Samml., pi. xxix. 4. 11. 146 POLISHED CELTS. [CHAP. VI. The haft was usually formed of a stein of hazel, with a rootrunning from it at right angles. A cleft was then made in thisshorter part, forming a kind oi* beak in which the celt was fixedwith cord and asphalte. A woodcut of a handle of the samecharacter, found near Schraplau, in company with its stone blade,is given by Klemm,* and is here reproduced as Fig. 101. A handle of much the same character, foundwith a skeleton and a wooden shield in agrave near Langen Eichstatt, in Saxony, thas been engraved by Lindenschmit. Thehandles of bronze palstaves, found in thesalt mines near Salzburg, Austria, are of thesame character. One of them, formerly inthe Klemm Collection, is now in the British Fg. Museum. The same system of hafting has been in use among savagesin recent times, as will be seen from the annexed figure of astone adze from New Caledonia, { Fig. 102, kindly lent me
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