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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. 132 Wollaton Park. in Denmark and Northern Germany. They are much rarer in France,partly, no doubt, in consequence of the less abundance of suitable material. A small specimen of the same form, but rather more square at the butt than HAMMER-LUCE AT ONE END. 183 Fig. 131, made of dark serpentine, and only 3f inches long, was found at Tanagra, in Boeotia, and is in the collection of Dr. G. Finlay,* of Athens. Some of the forms last described, having square butt-ends, might,perhaps, with greater propriety have been included in the fourth class into which I have proposed to divide these instruments, viz.,axe-hammers, with an edge at one end and more or less hammer-like at the other, and with the shaft-hole usually about the centre.
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Fig. 133.—Buckthorpe. £ One of the simplest, and at the same time the rarest varieties of this class, is presented by an implement of the form of an ordinary celt, like Fig. 69, but bored through in the same direction as the edge. Fig. 133represents such a specimen, in the collection of Messrs. Mortimer, ofF imber. It was found at Buckthorpe, Yorkshire, and is formed of close-grained greenstone. The butt-end is circular and flat, and the shaft-hole, which is oval, tapers considerably both ways. An axe-hammer of diorite, of nearly similar form, found at Groningen,in the Netherlands, is in the Museum at Leyden. * Cat. of Objects found in Greece, fig. 3. 184 PERFORATED AXES. (CHAP. VIII. Another simple form is that exhibited in Fig. 134, taken from a specimen in greenstone found at Aldro, near Malton, Yorkshire, and in the possession of Mr. Hartley, of Malton. Its principal interest consists in its having been left in the unfinished state previous to its perforation. We thus learn that th

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