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the flat sides much narrower, is shown in Fig. 60, from a specimen in the Greenwell Collection, found at Ilderton, Northumberland. It is formed of a hard, slaty rock or honestone. The angles of the sides are rounded.

Fig. 60.—Ilderton, Northumberland. 1/2 In the National Museum at Edinburgh are two implements of greenstone (23/4 and 3 inches) of nearly similar form to Fig. 60, but having the sides sharp. They were found in the Isle of Skye.^[1]

A smaller celt of the same character, 21/2 inches long, found in a cairn at Brindy Hill, Aberdeenshire,^[2] is in the British Museum.

One 25/8 inches long, from Sardis,^[3] in Lydia, and in the same collection, is of much the same form, but rounder at the sides and less pointed at the butt.

Implements of the form represented in Fig. 61 occur most frequently in the northern part of Britain, especially in Cumberland and Westmorland, in consequence, it may be supposed, of the felspathic rocks, of which they are usually formed, being there found in the greatest abundance. That here figured is in the British Museum. It is of mottled close-grained stone, beautifully finished, and was found in a turf pit on Windy Harbour Farm, near Pendle, Lancashire.^[4] It is more slender than the generality of the implements of this class, which in outline usually more closely resemble Fig. 77, which, however, has a cutting edge at each end. They sometimes slightly expand towards the butt-end.

I have a more roughly-finished implement of this class, with the two faces faceted longitudinally, found near Wigton, Cumberland, and formerly in the Crosthwaite Museum, at Keswick. It is of felspathic ash, much decomposed on the surface, and 9 inches long. I have also- a small example of the type (71/2 inches) made of whin-stone, and found by Mr. W. Whitaker, F.R.S., near Sudbury, Suffolk, in 1873. Some larger specimens of similar character are in the Christy Collection. One of them is 133/4 inches in length.

In the Greenwell Collection is an implement of this type, but with the sides straighter, and the angles rounded, found at Holme, on Spalding Moor, Yorkshire. It is of hone-stone, 7 inches long, 21/2 inches broad at the edge, but tapering to 11/4 inches at the butt. There is also another of felstone, 123/4 long, found at Great Salkeld, Cumberland.

There is a celt of this type in the Blackmore Museum (131/8 inches), the butt-end round and sharpened, though the edge has been removed by grinding. It is said to have been found, 5 or 6 feet deep in gravel,

1. See "Acct. of Soc. Ant. of Scot.," p. 55.
2. "Horæ Ferales," pl. ii. 11.
3. "Horæ Ferales," pl. ii. 13. Arch. Journ., vol. xv. p. 178.
4. "Horæ Ferales," pl. ii. 7.