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51/2 inches long, slightly unsymmetrical in outline, owing to the cleavage of the stone. It is said to have been found near Brierlow, Buxton. The material is a green jade-like stone, but so fibrous in appearance as to resemble fibrolite.

Fig. 52a.—Berwickshire.1/2

Another, of "a fine granite stone, highly polished, 9 inches long, 41/4 broad at one end, tapering to the other, its thickness in the middle 3/4 of an inch, and quite sharp at the edges all round," was found at Mains,^[1] near Dumfries, in 1779. It was discovered in blowing up some large stones, possibly those of a dolmen, and is now in the possession of Sir R. S. Riddell, Bart., of Strontian.

Several other specimens have been found in Scotland. A beautiful celt from Berwickshire^[2] is, through the kindness of the Society of

1. Arch., vol. vii. p. 414; Proc. Soc. Ant., 2nd S., vol. vi. 37.
2. Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., vol. xxvi. p. 176; xxviii. p. 322.