. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. Thoughmuch flatter on one face than theother, it would appear, from theslanting edge, to have been usedas an axe, and not as an adze,unless indeed it were a hand-tool. Another peculiarity of form iswhere the edge, instead of beingas usual nearly in the centre of theblade, is almost in the same plane asone of the faces, like that of a implement of this character, froma Picts castle, Clickem-in, nearLerwick, Shetland, is shown in It is in my own collection, havingbeen presented to me by the Knowle
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. Thoughmuch flatter on one face than theother, it would appear, from theslanting edge, to have been usedas an axe, and not as an adze,unless indeed it were a hand-tool. Another peculiarity of form iswhere the edge, instead of beingas usual nearly in the centre of theblade, is almost in the same plane asone of the faces, like that of a implement of this character, froma Picts castle, Clickem-in, nearLerwick, Shetland, is shown in It is in my own collection, havingbeen presented to me by the Knowles, The materialappears to be a hard form is well adapted for beingmounted as an adze, much in thesame manner as the nearly similarimplements in use by the South SeaIslanders. A New Zealand adze ofprecisely the same character is en-graved in Lubbocks Prehistoric Times, p. 73. ^^- ^^--Neai Lerwick. i Sometimes the edge of a celt, instead of being sharp, has been care- * Lubbock, Preh. Times, p. 490, figs. 215, Anh. Joiirn., vol. viii. p. 126 rOLISHED CELTS. [chap. VI fully removed by grinding, so as to present a flat or rounded Fig. 86 is represented a singular implement of this kind in flint. Itis polished all over; one side is straight, and the other curved; bothends are curved, but one is rounded at the edge, and the other flat. Itis diflicult to understand for what purpose such an instrument can havebeen intended. There is no reason for supposing that the grinding atthe ends was later in date than the formation of the other parts. I have another like Fig. 30 with the edge also flat-tened ; and I have seen another flint celt ofmuch the same form, found at Chesterford,Cambs.,with a somewhatflat edge, but roundedand worn away, as if by scraping some softsubstance. Small transverse stri(P, such asmight have been caused by particles of sand,are visible on the worn edge. The Kev. has a portion of a celt of green-stone, the fr
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