majority of cases, though among the Eskimos[1] a weapon has been in use, consisting of a stone ball with a drilled hole, through which a strip of raw hide is passed to serve as a handle.
Fig. 144.—Balmaclellan.
Fig. 145.—Thames, London. 12
The first specimen that I have selected for illustration, Fig. 144, might, with almost equal propriety, have been placed among the perforated axes, though it has three blunt edges instead of one or two. It was found at Balmaclellan, in New Galloway, and is now in the National Museum at Edinburgh. It is of very peculiar triangular form, 112 inches in thickness, and with a perforation expanding from an inch in diameter in the centre, to 134 inches on each side. An engraving of it is given in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.[2] This I have here reproduced on a larger scale, so as to correspond in its proportions with the other woodcuts.
A curious hammer, of brown hæmatite, not quite so equilateral as the Scotch specimen, and much thicker in proportion, found in Alabama, has been engraved by Schoolcraft.[3] The holes, from each side, do not meet in the middle.
The specimen shown in Fig. 145 was found in the Thames, at London, and is now in the British Museum. In form it is curiously like
