. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. Fig. 160.—Helmsley. f WITH DEPRESSIONS ON THE FACES. 215 Swaffham. It is 3f inches by 2f inches, and If inches thick, recessedon each face, with a conical depression, the apex rounded. These cavi-ties are about 1| inches in diameter on the face of the stone, and aboutf inch in depth. The Rev. W. C. Lukis, , has a hammer-stoneof this kind, 3 inches long, found at Melmerby, Cumberland. A circular rough-grained stone, 3 inches in diameter, with deep cup-. rig. 161.— like indentations on each face,
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. Fig. 160.—Helmsley. f WITH DEPRESSIONS ON THE FACES. 215 Swaffham. It is 3f inches by 2f inches, and If inches thick, recessedon each face, with a conical depression, the apex rounded. These cavi-ties are about 1| inches in diameter on the face of the stone, and aboutf inch in depth. The Rev. W. C. Lukis, , has a hammer-stoneof this kind, 3 inches long, found at Melmerby, Cumberland. A circular rough-grained stone, 3 inches in diameter, with deep cup-. rig. 161.— like indentations on each face, found on Goldenoch Moor, Wigtownshire,*is in the Edinburgh Antiquarian Museum; where isalso another hammer formed of a greenstone pebble, 3+inches long, with broad and deep cup-shaped depres-sions on each face, and much worn at one end. Itwas found at Dunning, Perthshire. There are otherexamples of the same kind in the same museum. The method in which these funnel-shapedcavities were finally polished, if not altogetherground into the faces of the pebbles, is illustratedby the pointed instrument shown in Fig. 162,which I have reproduced from the Sitsscx Archce-ological Collections^ on the same scale as the other figures. It isdescribed as being of silicious stone highly polished, and as having * Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., vol. iv. p. 440. t Vol. ix. p. 118.
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