sides more tapering, 6 inches long and 314 wide, which was found in Lochleven[1] in 1860, is in the same museum. This latter more nearly resembles Fig. 51 in outline. A small highly-polished celt of flinty slate (258 inches), found near Dundee,[2] has been figured. Another, more triangular in outline, 612 inches long, was found at Barugh, Yorkshire, and is in the Greenwell Collection. I have a celt of rather narrower proportions that was found between Hitchin and Pirton, Herts. It is made of a kind of lapis lydius.
Many of the Danish greenstone celts, which are perforated at the butt, present much the same outline and section.
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Fig. 56.—Sprouston, near Kelso. 12
Stone hatchets of this character occur, though rarely, in France. I have seen one in the collection of the late M. Aymard, at Le Puy. Dr. Finlay, of Athens, had a thin, flat hatchet of this form made of heliotrope, 312 inches long, with flat sides, found in Greece. The form occurs also in Sicily.[3]
Several celts of this type have been brought from different parts of Asia. One, of basalt, 2 inches long, wedge-shaped, found at Muquier,[4] in Southern Babylonia, is in the British Museum; and several of jade, 3 to 4 inches long, procured by Major Sladen from the province of Yunnan in Southern China, are in the Christy Collection. By Major Sladen's kindness, I have also a specimen. Mr. Joseph Edkins has published some notes on "Stone Hatchets in China."[5] Others from Perak[6] have also been described.
The same form, also in jade, has been found in Assam.[7]Some from Java, in the museum at Leyden, formed of flint, present the same section, but the sides expand towards the edge. A nearly similar form occurs in Japan.[8]
Fig. 56 is of the same character as Fig. 55, but narrower at the butt--- ↑ Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., vol. iii. p. 486.
- ↑ proc, Soc, Ant. Scot., vol. xiii. p. 306.
- ↑ Z. f. Eth., 1878, Supp. pl. iii.
- ↑ "Horæ Ferales," pl. ii. 14.
- ↑ Nature, vol. xxx. p. 515. See also Archiv. f. Anth., vol. xvi. p. 241, and Proc. Soc. Ant., 2nd S., vol. ix. p. 211.
- ↑ Journ. Anth. Inst., vol. xvii. p. 66.
- ↑ Proc. As. Soc. Beng., Sept., 1870. Proc. Ethnol. Soc., 1870, p. lxii.
- ↑ Kanda's "Stone Implements of Japan," Nature, vol. xxxi. p. 538; Cong. Preh. Bruxelles, 1872, p. 337.
