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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
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an edge, is not so sharp as the broader or cutting end. The surface issomewhat decomposed. It is in the collection of the Rev. W. Green- * Journ. Elhn. Soc, ii. p. IGo. OF RECTANGULAR SECTION. 109 well F.S.A., in which also is the somewhat analogous implement shownin Fig. 63. This also is from the same part of Yorkshire, having been found,in 1808, at GilHng,* in the Vale of Mowbray, 4 feet deep in peaty clay. Itis formed of clay ironstone, and has the angles somewhat rounded. The
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edge is oblique and slightly chipped away. Another celt of close-grainedschist, found in the same parish, and preserved in the same col-lection, more resembles in outline that from Ness, though not sharp atthe butt, and having an obUque edge. It is 5f inches long and 2^inches broad. Mr. Greenwell has a thinner celt of the same type, foundat Heslcrton Carr. * Jouni. Ethi. Soc, ii. p. 165. 110 POLISHED CEI/JS. (CHAF. VI. An Italian celt, of mucli the same character as Fig. 62, but of green-stone, has been figured by Clastaldi.* The next form of celt which I have to describe is more chisel-like inappearance, both the faces and sides being almost flat and nearly parallel.This peculiarity of form is no doubt mainly due to the schistose characterof the rock from which the implement is made, which, in the case of theoriginal of Fig. 64, is a close-grained slate or hone-stone. It wasfound at Swinton, near Malton, Yorkshire, andwas given to me by Mr. C. Monkman. Theangles are slightly rounded,

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