. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. BORING, THE LAST PROCESS. 185 Greenwell, It is 5f inches long, 2f inches broad, and 2f inchesthick at the cutting end. A partially finished axe-head, with one face and about two-thirds ofthe width of the sides worked into form, is engraved in the HorseFerales. * It is not a British specimen, but its place of finding isunknown. A rather more elaborate form, having the two faces curved longitudi-nally inwards, and the edge broader than the hammer end, is shown inFig. 185. The original, which is of porphyritic greens
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. BORING, THE LAST PROCESS. 185 Greenwell, It is 5f inches long, 2f inches broad, and 2f inchesthick at the cutting end. A partially finished axe-head, with one face and about two-thirds ofthe width of the sides worked into form, is engraved in the HorseFerales. * It is not a British specimen, but its place of finding isunknown. A rather more elaborate form, having the two faces curved longitudi-nally inwards, and the edge broader than the hammer end, is shown inFig. 185. The original, which is of porphyritic greenstone, was dis-covered by the Rev. W. Greenwell, , in a barrow at Cowlam,fnear Weaverthorpe, Yorkshire. It lay in front of the face of a contractedskeleton, the edge towards the face, and the remains of the wooden.
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