Identifier: stoneimplementsw00evaniala (find matches)
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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wider inproportion than Fig. 72, and doesnot narrow towards the edge, butin section and general form maybe classed with it. It is 10 incheslong, 3f inches wide, and 2; inchesthick. A large celt of the same section,but thinner proportionally, andwith straighter and more parallelsides, in outline more like Fig. 79,10 inches long, 3 inches broad at theedge, and If inchesthick, was foundat Pilmoor, in the North Riding ofYorkshire, and is in the collectionFig. 72.-Waieiiam. i of the Rev. W. Greenwell, F.S.A. It is of clay-slate. Another in the same collection, and from NorthHolme, in the same Riding, is broader and flatter, with the sidessomewhat more square, and the edge more curved. It is 10 incheslong, 4 inches wide at the edge, and If thick. One face is somewhathollowed towards one side, possibly to grind out the trace of a toodeep chip. A third from Barmston, in the East Riding, is 10;- incheslong, and 4 inches broad at the end. An analogous form from Japan isin the Museum at Leyden.
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Anc. Mon. of Miss. Val., p. 215, fig. 106. ROUGHENED AT THE BUTT. 117 A long narrow chisel-like celt, with an oval section, is given in Fig. 73.The original is of dark greenstone, and was fonnd in Forfarshire. It luin the Antiquarian Museum at Edinburgh. I have a larger celt of thesame form. Si inches long and 1; inches wide, formed of a close-grainedgrit, and found at Sherburn, Yorkshire. Messrs. Mortimer have anotherof schist, 4^ inches long and If inches wide, from Thixendale, Yorkshire.This form occurs, though rarely, in Ireland. A much larger celt, of metamorphic rock, 8^ inches long, 3 inchesbroad at the edge and If inches at the butt, 1; inches thick, was foundon Throckley Fell, Northumberland, and is in the Museum at Newcastle. Fig. 74 gives a shorter form of implement, truncated at the butt. Theoriginal, which is in my own collection, is formed of greenstone, and wasfound at Easton, near Bridlington, by Mr. E. Tindall. It is carefullypolished towards the edge, but at the butt

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