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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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hes long. Mr. Cunnington, F.G.S., has a small celt of this kind from Morton, nearDorchester. I have a thick celt of this class, 8 inches long and 2^^ inchesvnde at the edge, from Wicken Fen, Cambridge. Though in part groundon the faces, the edge, which has probably been re-chipped, is left roughand ungrouud. The same is the case with some French celts. Messrs.Mortimer, of Fimber, have specimens of the same class. One of these,4f inches long and 2 inches wide at the edge, is from Garton, Yorkshire ;another similar, but less taper, 4^ inches long and l.j inches wide, isfrom Lady Graves, near Fimber, where also a ruder celt of the samecharacter was found. I have a small celt 3 inches long, of the sameclass, from Seamer, Yorkshire. One of dark flint, slightly curved, 5;^inches long, 2 inches wide, -^ inch thick, found at South Slipperfield,West Linton, Peeblesshire, is preserved in the Antiquarian Museum atEdinburgh.! It was the cutting end of a celt of this class, sharp at the sides, and
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. 35.—Mildeiiliall. * Vest. Ant. Derby, p. 43. Cat., p. 31. f rroc. Soc. Ant. Scot., vi. p. 17f EXPANDING AT THE END. 83 ground only at the edge, which is said to have been found embeddedin the skull of a J^ns primiucnius,- in a fen near Cambridge. The skulland implement have been deposited by Mr. Carter in the WoodwardianMuseum. In the collection of Mr. R. Fitch, F.S.A., is a small flintadze of this character, but rather narrower, and very much thinner inproportion. It is 4; inches long, about 1; inches broad, and only \inch thick. It is considerably curved in the direction of its length, andbears only slight traces of grinding at the edge, which is segmental. Itwas found at Santon Downham, Suffolk. A celt of the form of Fig. 35, found with flint knives and other implements

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