shows marks of having been hammered, so that these implements were probably used without hafting and in conjunction with a mallet or hammer of wood or stag's horn. Another and rarer form of gouge with a sharp elliptical section, tapers to the butt, and may have been used for paring away charred surfaces without the aid of a mallét. Some small examples of this class show, however, polished markings, as if from having been inserted in handles.
Under the head of gouges I must comprise a few of those celt-like implements already mentioned, which, without being actually ground hollow, yet, by having one of their faces much flatter transversely than the other, present at the edge a gouge-like appearance, somewhat after the manner of the "round-nosed chisels" of engineers. One of these was discovered in a barrow on Willerby Wold,[1] Yorkshire, by Canon Greenwell, F.R.S., though it was not associated with any burial.
Fig. 115.—Eastbourne. 12
It is shown in Fig. 116, and is formed of a light green hone-stone, carefully ground and even polished, and presents a beautifully regular and sharp cutting edge. It would appear to have been intended for mounting as a hollow adze rather than as a gouge, and would when thus mounted have formed a useful tool for hollowing canoes, or for other similar purposes.
In the Greenwell Collection is also another implement of the same character and material, but smaller, being 4 inches long and 238 inches- ↑ "Brit. Barrows," p. 181.
