. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. Fig. Fig. 20.—Bottisham Fen. is in the collection of the Rev. W. Greenwell, There are tracesof grinding on some portions of the faces. In the same collection isanother hatchet of the same character from Ganton Wold, Yorkshire,the edge of which is ground. I have an unground example of thistype from Lakenheath. The original of Fig. 20 is in the Museum of the Cambridge Anti-quarian Society, and was found in Bottisham Feu. In neatness ofworkmanship it much resembles Fig. ly; but it is slightly curvedl
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. Fig. Fig. 20.—Bottisham Fen. is in the collection of the Rev. W. Greenwell, There are tracesof grinding on some portions of the faces. In the same collection isanother hatchet of the same character from Ganton Wold, Yorkshire,the edge of which is ground. I have an unground example of thistype from Lakenheath. The original of Fig. 20 is in the Museum of the Cambridge Anti-quarian Society, and was found in Bottisham Feu. In neatness ofworkmanship it much resembles Fig. ly; but it is slightly curvedlongitudinally, and has the inner face more ridged than the outer. Itwas ])robably intended to be mounted as an adze. I have a beautiful implement of the same general form, but nearly EXPAXDIXG AT THE ENDS. 67 flat on one face, found in Burwell large flake. The hatchet engraved as Fig. 21has been kindly brought under mynotice by Mr. Albert Way, was found in ploughing nearBournemouth, and is in the posses-sion of the Hev. J. H. Austen. Itsprincipal peculiarity is the inwardcu
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