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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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is of dark greenstone, and,owing to a defect in the piece of stone of which it was made, there is ahollow place in one of the faces. Colonel A. Lane Fox, F.S.A., has asimilar but more symmetrical celt, of the same material, also found inthe Thames. Another smaller, from the same source, is in the BritishMuseum;_ and another is in the collection of the Kev. T. Hugo, F.S.A.* Large implements of this form are of not uncommon occurrence inScotland and in the Shetland Isles. There are several in the AntiquarianMuseum at Edinburgh, and also in the British Museum, and in that ofNewcastle. The butt-end is occasionally pointed, and the faces in broad * Arch. Assoc. Joum., x. p. 105. 112 POLISHED CELTS. (CHAP. VI. specimens flatter than in Fig. 67. Several of these celts in the BritishMuseum were found in the middle of the last century, in Shetland. Thelargest is 11 inches long, 3 inches wide at the edge, and 1\ inches thick.It was found in Selter,* parish of Walls. Others are from 8 inches to
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Fig. 67.—Thames, London. 1 9 inches long. In the case of one, 12 inches long and 3; inches wide,from Shetland, and in the Edinburgh Museum, the edge is oblique.The Rev. W. Greenwell, F.S.A., has a celt of this kind formed of * Horae Ferales, pi. ii. 5. OF OVAL SECTION WITH CONICAL BUTT. 113 porphyritic greenstone, 13 inches long, and 3f inches wide, fromSandsting, Shetland. A celt of greenstone, 8 inches long, 2J inches wide, and l£ inchesthick, in outline much resembling Fig. 72, was found, in 1758, atTresta, in the parish of Aithsting, Shetland, and is now in the BritishMuseum. It is flat on one face, the other being convex, so thatthe section is an oval with a segment removed. Such an instrumentmust, in all probability, have been mounted as an adze, though the flatface may have originally been due to the cleavage of the reck, which is aporphyritic greenstone. Another celt, flat on one face, so that the section presents little morethan half an oval, was foundat Yell, in the same

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