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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 -- Great Britain Great Britain -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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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 chisel.An implement of this character, froma Picts castle, Clickem-in, nearLerwick, Shetland, is shown in Fig.85. It is in my own collection, havingbeen presented to me by the Rev.Dr. Knowles, F.S.A. The materialappears to be a hard clay-slate.The 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, 216.t Anh. Joiirn., vol. viii. p. 422.
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126 rOLISHED CELTS. (chap. VI fully removed by grinding, so as to present a flat or rounded surface.In 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. W.Greenwell has a portion of a celt of green-stone, the fractured face ground flat, and aportion of the edge also ground away. A sm

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