. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. een commenced. It was foundat Coxwold, in the North Riding of Yorkshire. An unpierced axe-head of greenstone, 4 inches long, in form muchlike Fig. 136, but with the hollowed face shorter, was found in agrave in Stronsay, one of the Orkney Islands, and is now in the Anti-quarian Museum at Edinburgh. There are slight recesses on each face,showing the spots at which the perforation was to have been com-menced. A perforated axe of serpentine, of the same character as Fig. 134, butwider at the butt, was found in the Thames, a
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. een commenced. It was foundat Coxwold, in the North Riding of Yorkshire. An unpierced axe-head of greenstone, 4 inches long, in form muchlike Fig. 136, but with the hollowed face shorter, was found in agrave in Stronsay, one of the Orkney Islands, and is now in the Anti-quarian Museum at Edinburgh. There are slight recesses on each face,showing the spots at which the perforation was to have been com-menced. A perforated axe of serpentine, of the same character as Fig. 134, butwider at the butt, was found in the Thames, and is»-now in the BritishMuseum. It is 4 inches long and 2£ inches wide, with a shaft-hole 3 inchin diameter. It has the peculiarity of being much thicker at the cuttingend than at the butt, the two faces tapering from 1£ inches at the edgeto | inch at the butt. A similar feature is to be observed in another axe of hornblendeschist, and of rather more elongated form than Fig. 134, found at Cawton,in the North Riding of Yorkshire, and in the collection of the Rev. 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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