. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. 162 PICKS, CHISELS, GOUGES, ETC. [chap. VII. transversely on the other, but not hollowed, have been found in theSwiss Lake-settlements. I have one of diorite, 5f inches long and 1 inchbroad, from Sipplingen. The butt is roughened as if for insertion in a. Fig 117.—Bridlington. socket. A similar form is found in Germany. I have a specimen 9£inches long, 1 inch wide, and l£ inches thick in the middle of the blade,found in the neighbourhood of Mayence. A bastard form of gouge, mounted as an adze, is in use in the SolomonIsl
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. 162 PICKS, CHISELS, GOUGES, ETC. [chap. VII. transversely on the other, but not hollowed, have been found in theSwiss Lake-settlements. I have one of diorite, 5f inches long and 1 inchbroad, from Sipplingen. The butt is roughened as if for insertion in a. Fig 117.—Bridlington. socket. A similar form is found in Germany. I have a specimen 9£inches long, 1 inch wide, and l£ inches thick in the middle of the blade,found in the neighbourhood of Mayence. A bastard form of gouge, mounted as an adze, is in use in the SolomonIslands. One tied to its haft with rattan is in the Christy Collection. CHAPTER VIII. PERFORATED AXES. I now come to a very important class of antiquities, the stoneaxes and axe-hammers with a hole for the insertion of a haft,like the ordinary axes and hammers of the present day. As tothe method by which these shaft-holes were bored, I have alreadyspoken in a previous chapter. I have also mentioned that manyof them appear to belong to a time when bronze was already inuse, at all events for knife-like daggers, and that they have inmany countries shared with the more simply formed celts theattribution of a heavenly origin as thunderbolts, together withthe superstitious reverence due to their supernatural have,
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