I have also a larger specimen, 912 inches long, from the same spot, and found, I believe, at the same time.
This form is of common occurrence in the Eastern Counties. I have specimens from Hilgay Fen, Norfolk (812 inches), and Botesdale (7 inches), Hepworth (614 inches), Undley Hall, near Lakenheath (534 inches), in Suffolk. Some of these are ground over almost the entire face. A fine specimen (10 inches) is in the Woodwardian Museum, at Cambridge. In the Fitch Collection is a fine series of them. One of these, 934 inches long, 312 inches broad, and 212 inches thick, weighing 3 lbs. 612 ozs., was found at Narborough, near Swaffham. Another (912 inches), weighing 334 lbs., was found near Ipswich. A third (834 inches) was discovered at Bolton, near Great Yarmouth. Others from 534 inches to 714 inches long, are from Beachamwell, Elsing, Grundisburgh, Aylsham, and Breccles, in the counties of Suffolk and Norfolk. That from the last-named locality has one face flatter than the other.
There are others in the Norwich Museum, including one from Blofield, 812 inches long.
There are numerous specimens of this type in the British Museum. One from Barton Bendish, Norfolk, is 734 inches long; another from Oxburgh, in the same county, 634 inches. Others, 612 inches and 512 inches long, are from Market Weston and Kesgrave, Suffolk. The former is semicircular at both ends.
Mr. A. C. Savin has a well-finished example (612 inches) from Trimingham, five miles south of Cromer.
The Rev. S. Banks, of Cottenham, had a fine specimen, of white flint, 812 inches long, found at Stow Heath, Suffolk.
Several celts of this form found in the Fen district are in the Museum of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. I have some from the same neighbourhood, of which two are unusually wide in proportion to their length, and in outline much resemble Fig. 48, though the edge is more semicircular. One of these is 7 inches long, 314 inches wide, and l34 inches thick; the other 512 inches long, 234 inches wide, and 138 inches thick.
I have seen a celt presenting a narrow variety of this form, which was found at Albury, near Bishop's Stortford. It is 634 inches long, and 158 inches wide, and polished all over.
The ordinary form, though apparently of most frequent occurrence in the East Anglian counties, is not by any means confined to that district. One, 812 inches long, the sides very slightly flattened; and three others, 6 inches and 5 inches long, with the sides more rounded, all found in the Thames, at London, are in the British Museum. I have one from the Thames, at Teddington (6 inches), and three, 514 to 6 inches long, found together in[1] Temple Mills Lane, Stratford, Essex, in 1882. In the Greenwell Collection is one 712 inches long, found at Holme, on Spalding Moor, Yorkshire.
A flint celt of this form (612 inches), from Reigate,[2] is in the British Museum, as well as another (614 inches), rather oblique at the edge, found in a barrow in Hampshire, engraved in the Archælogia.[3]
