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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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Fig. 79.—Daviot, near Inverness. POLISHED CELTS OF ABNORMAL FORMS. 123 In Fig. 80 the reduction in width is more abrupt, and the blade wouhlaj^pear to have been mounted as an axe. It is formed of a compact lightgrey metamorphic rock, and is in the collection of the Rev. S. Banks, ofCottenham, Cambridgeshire. I have a greenstone celt found at Carnac,Brittany, with shoulders of the same character about the middle of theblade. The original of Fig. 81 was found in a gravel-pit near Malton, York-shire, and is in the possession of Capt.Copperthwaite. It was supposed thatthis implement was found in undis-turbed drift, and some correspondenceupon the subject appeared in the Timesnewspaper. There must, however, havebeen some misapprehension as to thecircumstances under which it was found,for the gravel appears to belong to theseries of Glacial deposits, and is ofconsiderably greater antiquity than anyof the old River Gravels in which theunpolished flint implements have beendiscovered. This c

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