I have another made from a quartzite pebble (458 inches) with the sides hollowed transversely, but rounded longitudinally, found with an urn on Wilton Heath, near Brandon, in 1873. The blunt end is bruised and flattened by wear. I have a second, also of quartzite (538 inches), rounded in all directions, found near Ipswich, in 1865. It retains much of the form of the original pebble.
Fig. 125.—Bardwell. 12
In the Museum at Newcastle is preserved a specimen very similar to Fig. 125, of mottled greenstone, beautifully finished; the sides are, however, flat and not hollowed. It is 612 inches long, the faces are rounded, and the hole, which is about 78 inch in diameter, tapers slightly towards the middle. It was found in the River Wear at Sunderland. Another of the same character, formed from a beautifully veined stone, accompanied a bronze dagger in a barrow near East Kennet, Wilts.[1]
I have another axe of the same kind, with both sides flat, 618 inches long, formed of porphyritic greenstone, and found near Colchester.- ↑ Proc. Soc. Ant., 2nd. S., vol. iv. p. 339. Arch., vol. xliii. p. 410. A. C. Smith's "Ant. of North Wilts.," p. 168. "Salisbury Vol. Arch. Inst.," 1849, p. 110; Arch. Journ., vol. xxiv. p. 29.
