In the National Museum at Edinburgh is one of white flint (10 inches) from Fochabers,[1] Elginshire, and another from the same place (714 inches). They are in shape much like Fig. 61. There is another of grey flint, from Skye (712 inches). One 512 inches long, in the same museum, from Roxburghshire, has the middle part of the faces ground flat, so that the section is a sort of compressed octagon; the edge is nearly straight.
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Fig. 54.—Lackford, Suffolk.12
Much the same form occurs in other materials than flint. I have a specimen, formed of flinty clay-slate, with one side less flat than the other, 1014 inches long, 3 wide, and 158 thick, said to have been found with four others in a cairn on Druim-a-shi, Culloden, Inverness. I have another of whin-stone (914 inches) from Kirkcaldy, Fife.
The fine celt from Gilmerton, Fig. 76, is of the same class, but has a cutting edge at each end. Some Cumberland and Westmorland specimens partake much of this character.
- ↑ Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., vol xvi. p. 408.
