common. Mr. Joshua W. Brooke has one (314 inches) from Liddington, Wilts. One of quartzite, 5 inches long, was found in a vallum of Clare Castle, Suffolk,[1] and is in the Museum of the Society of Antiquaries; another (412 inches) at Sunninghill, Berks;[2] another (212 inches) near Reigate.[3] One, in form like Fig. 156 (414 inches), was discovered in Furness.[4] Others were found at Pallingham Quay,[5] and St. Leonard's Forest,[6] Horsham (5 inches), both in Sussex. What seems to be a broken hammer (258 inches) and not a spindle-whorl was obtained at Mount Caburn,[7] Lewes. Another, circular in outline, and 3 inches in diameter, was found at Stifford,[8] near Grays Thurrock, and is engraved in the Archæological Journal.[9] I have here reproduced the figure (Fig. 157), though the scale is somewhat larger than that of my other illustrations.
Fig. 157.—Stifford.
In the British Museum is a specimen, originally about 312 inches by 214 inches, and 34 inch thick, with the end battered, which was found in a tumulus at Cliffe, near Lewes. Another, 334 inches in diameter, from the Thames; a subtriangular example from Marlborough (414 inches); and an oval one (378 inches) from Sandridge, Herts, are in the same collection.
A longer form (614 inches by 318) was found at Epping Uplands, Essex,[10] and another about 5 inches, rather hoe-like in form, in the Lea, at Waltham. Another (412 inches) was found in London.[11]
In the Norwich Museum are two hammer-heads of this type, one from Sporle, near Swaffham (318 inches), of quartzite; and the other of jasper, from Eye, Suffolk, 5 inches by 234 inches. In the Fitch Collection are also specimens from Yarmouth (312 inches), from Lyng (5 inches), and Congham, Norfolk (6 inches), as well as a fragment of one found at Caistor.
The late Mr. Warren, of Ixworth, had one from Great Wratting, near Haverhill (4 inches), and the late Mr. James Carter, of Cambridge, one 314 inches in diameter, from Chesterton.
In the Museum of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society is one of irregular form, found near Newmarket. A thin perforated stone, 6 inches by 3 inches, from Luton,[12] in Bedfordshire, may belong to this class, though it was regarded as an unfinished axe-head.
In the collection formed by Canon Greenwell is one found at Coves Houses, Wolsingham, Durham (312 inches), and another of quartzite (412 inches), with both ends battered, from Mildenhall Fen. He discovered another of small size, only 214 inches in length, with the perforation not- ↑ Archæologia, vol. xiv. p. 281, pl. lv.; Cat., p. 14.
- ↑ Arch. Journ., vol. ix. p. 297.
- ↑ Arch. Journ., vol. x. p. 72.
- ↑ Archæologia, vol. xxxi. p. 452.
- ↑ Sussex Arch. Coll., vol. ix. p. 118.
- ↑ Sussex Arch. Coll., vol. xxvii. p. 181.
- ↑ Arch., vol. xlvi. p. 492, pl. xxiv. 22.
- ↑ Proc. Soc. Ant., 2nd S., vol. iii. p. 406.
- ↑ Vol. xxvi. p. 190.
- ↑ Essex Nat., vol. viii. p. 164.
- ↑ Arch. Assoc. Journ., vol. xxix. p. 77.
- ↑ Proc. Soc. Ant., 2nd S., vol. ii. p. 400.
