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now in my own collection. The material is greenstone. Implements of this form, but rarely expanding at the edge, are of common occurrence in that part of Yorkshire. Some of them have been made of a variety of greenstone liable to decomposition from atmospheric or other causes, and the celts when found present a surface so excessively eroded that their form can with difficulty be recognized. In the Greenwell Collection are celts of the type of Fig. 68, from Willerby, in the East Riding (61/2 inches and 51/2 inches), and Crambe, in the North Riding of Yorkshire (61/4 inches), as well as another (53/4 inches) from Sherburn, Durham. I have one nearly 8 inches long, from Speeton, near Bridlington, and several (51/2 to 6 inches) from the Cambridge Fens. The surface of one of them is for the most part decomposed, but along a vein of harder material the original polish is preserved.

Fig. 69.—Lakenheath, Suffolk. 1/2 Mr. F. Spalding has found one (8 inches), with a sideways curve, on the shore at Walton-on-the-Naze.

A greenstone celt of this form (81/2 inches) was found at Minley Manor,^[1] Blackwater, Hants.

In the Fitch Collection is one of serpentine (61/4 inches), from Bull's Lane, near Loddon, Norfolk, and the late Mr. J. W. Flower had one of greenstone (41/4 inches), found at Melyn Works, Neath. The greenstone celt found in Grime's Graves,^[2] Norfolk, was of this form, but rather longer in its proportions, being 71/2 inches long and 21/4 inches broad at the edge, which is oblique. The late Mr. H. Durden, of Blandford, had a greenstone celt of this type (5 inches), found at Langton, near Blandford, the butt-end of which is roughened by picking, probably for insertion in a socket; and the late Rev. E. Duke, of Lake, near Salisbury, had a celt of this character, found in a tumulus in that parish. I have both French and Danish specimens of the same form at the butt, though narrower at the edge.

Another variety, in which the butt-end is less pointed and more oval, is given in Fig. 69. The original is of dark green hornblende schist, and was found at Lakenheath, Suffolk. I have a large implement of similar form and material (51/2 inches), with the edge slightly oblique, from Swaffham, Cambridgeshire; another of serpentine (31/4 inches), from Coldham's Common, Cambridge; others of greenstone (4 and 33/4 inches), from Kempston, Bedford, and Burwell Fen, Cambs.; as well as one of greenstone (43/8 inches), from Standlake, Oxon. A celt of this type, of porphyritic stone (51/2 inches), found

1. Proc. Soc. Ant., 2nd S., vol. vi. p. 235.
2. Journ. Ethnol. Soc., vol. ii. pl. xxx. 3.