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Title: The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Evans, John, Sir, 1823-1908
Subjects: Stone age
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Fig. 53.—Botesdale, Suffolk. $ Skye, 1\ inches long and 2£ wide at the edge. Another, 5; inches long,in the same museum, from Roxburghshire, has the middle part of thefaces ground flat, so that the section is a sort of compressed octagon :the edge is nearly straight. * Rev. W. Greenwell, F.S.A.% Mr. Frank Buckland, F.Z.S. t Mr. James Brown.§ Rev. S. Banks. WITH THE EDGE OBLIQUE. 101 Much the same form occurs in other materials than flint. I have aspecimen with one side less flat than the other, 10£ inches long, 3 wide,and If thick, said to have been found with four others in a cairn onDruim-a-shi, Culloden, Inverness. The fine celt from Gilmerton, Fig. 76, is of the same class, but hasa cutting edge at each end. Implements of nearly similar form to that last described, but havingthe edge oblique, are also met with. That engraved in Fig. 54 was
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Fig. 54.—Laekford, Suffolk. £ found at Laekford, Suffolk, and was formerly in the collection of Mr.Warren, of Ixworth, but is now in mine. It is of grey flint. I haveanother, of white flint, of the same length, but a trifle narrower, andwith the grinding for the edge forming more of a facet with the bodyof the celt. It was found in the Isle of Portland. The obliquity of theedge was no doubt intentional, and may have originated in the manner 102 POLISHED CELTS. (CHAP. VI. in which these hatchets were mounted in their hafts. Professor Nilsson*has suggested that the obliquity is due to the front part of the blade*being worn away in use more quickly than the back. To this class, though very different in appearance, belongs a beauti-fully made celt of grey flint in the British Museum. It is probably ofEnglish origin, though the place of finding is unknown. The sides arestraight and flat, but only about re of an inch wide, the faces equallyconvex and polished all over. It is 9 inches lon

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