curve. The original is in the Greenwell Collection, and was dug up in draining at Ponteland, Northumberland. Another, in the same collection, similar, but much rougher (6 inches) was found at Halton Chesters, in the same county. I have one of the same kind (658 inches) found near Raby Castle, Durham.
A flint hatchet of nearly the same form, 412 inches long, was found at Kempston, near Bedford. The Earl of Ducie, F.R.S., has another of flint (5 inches) from Bembridge, Isle of Wight. A celt, from Andalusia, of this character, but with the edge straighter, has been figured.[1]
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| Fig. 49.—Ponteland, Northumberland.12 | Fig. 50.—Fridaythorpe, Yorkshire.12 |
The celt engraved in Fig. 50 is likewise in the Greenwell Collection, and was found at Fridaythorpe, in the East Riding of Yorkshire. It is formed of green hone-stone. Another, similar but thicker, and having the sides more convergent and the edge less oblique, was found at the same place and is in the same collection, in which also is the fragment of a larger implement of the same class from Amotherby, near Malton, Yorkshire. With these is another (434 inches) which was found in a barrow with a burnt interment on Seamer Moor, Yorkshire. It is apparently of clay-slate which has become red by burning with the body.
Messrs. Mortimer have one of this form in greenstone (538 inches) found near Malton, and also one in flint (418 inches) found near Fimber.
- ↑ Arch. Journ. vol. xxvii. p. 238.
