at Branton, Northumberland, is in the Greenwell Collection. It is slightly oblique at the edge. Another of the same character, of greenstone (634 inches), found at Sproughton, Suffolk, is in the Fitch Collection. Another, 5 inches long, found at Kingston-on-Thames, is in the Museum of the Society of Antiquaries.
Another of green serpentine, faceted to form the edge, and rounded at butt, 4 inches long, was found in a cairn in Fifeshire, and is preserved in the National Museum at Edinburgh.
In the Blackmore Museum is a celt of granite tapering to the rounded point at the butt, 612 inches long, which has been roughened at the upper end, and is polished towards the edge. It was found in the River Lambourn, Berks.
I have seen another of this form, but of flint (412 inches), with the sides much rounded, so as to be almost oval, found near Eastbourne, where also this form has occurred in greenstone. The late Mr. H. Durden, of Blandford, had a celt of greenstone of this form 438 inches long, found at Tarrant Launceston, Dorset. Many of the celts found in India are of this type.
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Fig. 70.—Seamer, Yorkshire. 12
A shorter form, which also seems to be most prevalent in Yorkshire, is represented in Fig. 70. The specimen figured is from Seamer, formed of greenstone, and belongs to the Greenwell Collection. In the same collection is another (4 inches), rather larger and thicker, from Scampston. Another of quartzite (5 inches), polished all over, but showing traces of having been worked with a pick, was found at Birdsall, near Malton, and is in the collection of Messrs. Mortimer, of Driffield. I have one of greenstone (412 inches), also from Seamer.
A celt of greenstone, of the same section, but broader and more truncated at the butt, 3 inches long, and found near Bellingham, North Tyne, is in the Newcastle Museum. Another (4 inches), in outline more like Fig. 60, was found in a sepulchral cave Rhos Digre,[1] Denbighshire.
Some of the stone celts from Italy, Greece, Asia Minor[2] and India, are of much the same form, but usually rather longer in their proportions. I have some Greek specimens more like Fig. 71—kindly given to me by Captain H. Thurburn, F.G.S. Celts of this character are said to have been in use among the North American Indians[3] as fleshing- ↑ Dawkins' "Cave-hunting," p. 157. Arch. Camb., 4th S., vol. iii., 1872, p. 30.
- ↑ See Schliemann's "Mycenæ," p. 76; "Troy," p. 71; Rev. Arch., vol. xxxiv. p. 163, &c., &c.
- ↑ Schoolcraft, "Ind. Tribes," vol. i. p. 91. Other North American celts are engraved in the "Anc. Mon. of the Miss. Valley," pp. 217, 218; Squier, "Abor. Mon. of New York," p. 77.
