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PERFORATED AXES.
[CHAP. VIII.

preserved in the Berlin Museum; and another of greenstone was found at Hallstatt.[1] A singular variety from the same spot has the edge at one end at right angles to that at the other.

A small sketch of a very remarkable curved blade, pointed at one end and with an axe-like edge at the other, is given in the Journal of the Archæological Association.[2] It is of greenstone, 11 inches long and 21/2 inches across, and was found in Guernsey. By the kindness of the late Rev. W. C. Lukis, F.S.A., of Wath, I am enabled to give an engraving of the type in Fig. 121. A number of specimens have been found in the Channel Islands, to which the form seems peculiar.

Fig. 120.—Llanmadock 1/2

The second class into which I proposed to divide these implements consists of adzes, or blades having the edge at right angles to the shaft-hole. Apart from a short notice by Mr. Monkman, I believe that attention was for the first time called in the former edition of this book, to the occurrence of this form in Britain.

  1. Simony, "Alt. von Hallstatt," p. 9; Taf. vi. 3.
  2. Vol. iii. p. 128.