I have a well-finished celt of hone-stone, rather thicker proportionally than that figured (558 inches), probably found in Cumberland, it having formed part of the Crosthwaite Collection at Keswick. In the Greenwell Collection is another of basalt, with straight sides, tapering from 234 inches at edge to 134 at butt, 912 in length, and 134 thick, from a peat moss at Cowshill-in-Weardale, Durham.
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Fig. 51.—Oulston.12
A thin, flat form of celt, still presenting the same character of section, is represented in Fig. 51. The original is formed of a hard, nearly black clay-slate, and was found at Oulston, in the North Riding of Yorkshire. Like many others which I have described, it is in the Greenwell Collection.
One of flint like Fig. 51 (5 inches) was found at Shelley,[1] Suffolk.
A celt of greenstone (434 inches), of the same character but thicker and with straighter sides, from Newton, Aberdeenshire, is in the National Museum at Edinburgh, where is also another, in outline more like the figure, but broader at the butt-end, and with one side somewhat flattened. It is 438 long, and was found at Redhall, near Edinburgh.
Some Irish celts, formed of different metamorphic rocks, present the same forms as those of Figs. 48 to 51. As a rule, however, the sides of Irish specimens are more rounded.
Fig. 52 represents an exquisitely polished celt, of a mottled, pale- ↑ Proc. Soc. Ant., 2nd S., vol. ix. p. 71.
