AXE-HAMMERS HOLLOWED ON THE SIDES.
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A still greater elaboration of form is exhibited in Fig. 137, from an implement found at Kirklington, Yorkshire, and in the Greenwell Collection. It is of basalt, worked to a flat oval at the hammer-end, and to a curved cutting edge at the other. The two sides are
Fig. 137.—Kirklington. 12
ground concave, and the shaft-hole is nearly parallel. This axe-hammer is of larger size than usual when of this form, being 8 inches in length.
Nearly similar weapons have been frequently found in barrows.
