Fig. 83.—Middleton Moor.
the tools of the Eskimos or the handles of the bronze sickles of the Swiss Lake-dwellers.[1] An Irish celt, 8 inches long, and now in the Blackmore Museum, has two notches on one side only, and more distinctly formed, "seemingly to receive the fingers and give a firmer hold when used in the hand without a haft."
Another peculiar instrument adapted for being held in the hand is shown in Fig. 83a. It was found at Keystone, Huntingdonshire,[2] and is now in the British Museum. It is made of greenstone, and in form resembles the sharp end of a celt with flat sides let into a spherical handle. Some hand-hatchets from Australia are of much the same character, but in their case the knob is distinct from the blade, and formed of hard xanthorrhæa gum.
Fig. 83a.—Keystone. 12
- ↑ Lubbock "Preh. Times," 4th ed. p. 613, figs. 215, 216.
- ↑ Arch. Journ., vol. viii. p. 422.
