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mine,^[1] Torphichen, Linlithgow; and Laurie Street,^[2] Leith; another from the coast of Scotland is engraved in Skelton's "Meyrick's Armour,"^[3] but is there regarded as having been brought over by Danish invaders. Other Scottish^[4] specimens are numerous. There are thirteen in the Grierson Museum, Thornhill, Dumfriesshire. One of the same form as the figure (93/8 inches) was found at Dean,^[5] near Bolton, Lancashire, and others at Hopwood and Saddleworth in the same county. One of grit (71/2 inches) was found at Siddington,^[6] near Macclesfield. Another (8 inches), found at Kirkoswald, Cumberland, is in the museum at Newcastle, together with a similar specimen from Haydon Bridge; and others have been found at Thirstone, Shilbottle, Barrasford,^[7] and Hipsburn,^[8] Northumberland; and in Yorkshire.^[9] One (101/2 inches) was found at Ehenside Tarn,^[10] Cumberland. Others at Rusland, North Lonsdale, and Troutbeck. A long list of stone-hammers, &c., found in Cumberland and Westmorland, has been given by Chancellor R. S. Ferguson, F.S.A.,^[11] and a similar list has been compiled for Lancashire and Cheshire.^[12] They occur also in more southern districts. I have seen one (8 inches) from the neighbourhood of Glastonbury. Another of the same length was found on Dartmoor, near Burnt Tor. Others (81/2 and 9 inches) from Ashbury and Holsworthy,^[13] Devon, are in the Museum of the Plymouth Institute. One was found at Withycombe Raleigh,^[14] Devon. A fine specimen (8 inches long), with the sides somewhat hollowed, was found at Tasburgh, Norfolk. Another of greenstone (51/2 inches), and rather curved longitudinally, was found in the same parish. Other specimens from Norfolk are mentioned in the Norwich volume of the Archæological Institute. I have one of serpentine from Chatteris Fen, which has been broken diagonally, and had a fresh edge ground quite away from the middle. The Rev. S. Banks had one of hard sandstone (73/4 inches), found in Cottenham Fen. Its faces are more parallel, so that the edge is more obtuse. I have seen one, found near Stourton (91/2 inches), Somersetshire, straighter at the sides, and having the angles rounded. They occur in Leicestershire.^[15] One (7 inches) from the Cemetery at Leicester, and one (91/2 inches) from Barrow-on-Soar, are recorded. An axe of the same kind, but smaller, found near Imola, has been engraved by Gastaldi.^[16]

Perhaps the more common variety, in Cumberland, is that which is somewhat flattened at the butt, like Fig. 131, and which is, more

1. Ibid., vol. vi. p. 86.
2. Ibid., vol. iv. p. 379.
3. Pl. xlvii. 1.
4. See P. S. A. S., vol. xii. p. 568; xiv. p. 126; xv. p. 266; xvi. p. 76; xxiii. p. 205, 210; and Smith's "Preh. Man in Ayrshire," 1895, p. 39.
5. Arch. Assoc. Journ., vol. xv., p. 232.
6. Geologist, vol. vii. p. 56.
7. Arch. Ael., vol. xii. p. 118.
8. "Cat. Arch. Inst. Mus., Ed.," p. 38.
9. Arch. Journ., vol. x. p. 65.
10. Arch., vol. xliv. p. 284.
11. Proc. Soc. Ant., 2nd S., vol. viii. p. 489.
12. Tr. Lanc. and Chesh. Ant. Soc., vol. v. p. 327. See also xi. p. 171.
13. Tr. Dev. Assoc., vol. xxvi. p. 51.
14. Tr. Dev. Assoc., vol. xxii. p. 208.
15. Rep. Leic. Lit. and Phil. Soc., 1887–8, pl. iii.
16. Mem. Real. Acc. delle Scienze, &c., di Torino, Ser. II., vol. xxvi. Ta. i. 1. See also for Italy, Bull. di Pal. Ital., 1882, p. 1.