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is formed of clay iron-stone, and has the angles somewhat rounded. The edge is oblique and slightly chipped away. Another celt of close-grained schist (53/4 inches), found in the same parish, and preserved in the same collection, more resembles in outline that from Ness, though not sharp at the butt, and having an oblique edge. In the Greenwell Collection is a thinner celt of the same type, found at Heslerton Carr.

Fig. 63.—Gilling.1/2

I have a specimen (51/4 inches) of hone-stone, rather flatter on one face than the other, from Kirkcaldy, Fife.

An Italian celt, of much the same character as Fig. 62, but of green-stone, has been figured by Gastaldi.^[1]

The next celt which I have to describe is even more chisel-like in

1. Mem. Accad. M. di Torino, Ser. 2, vol. xxvi., Tav. iv. 4.