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The specimen engraved as Fig. 161 has been made from a quartzite pebble, and has the conical depression deeper on one face than the other. It was found at Winterbourn Bassett, Wilts, and is now in the British Museum.

Fig. 161.—Winterbourn Bassett. 1/2

In the Norwich Museum is a similar pebble, from Sporle, near Swaffham. It is 33/4 inches long, recessed on each face, with a conical depression, the apex rounded. These cavities are about 11/4 inches diameter on the face of the stone, and about 3/4 inch in depth. The Rev. W. C. Lukis, F.S.A., had a hammer-stone of this kind, 3 inches long, found at Melmerby, Cumberland. One (6 inches) was found at Langtree,^[1] Devon, another (31/8 inches) at Trefeglwys,^[2] Montgomeryshire. I have one (3 inches) from Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Coventry, and a thinner example, 23/4 inches, much worn at the ends, from Litlington, Cambs.

A circular rough-grained stone, 3 inches in diameter, with deep cup-like indentations on each face, found on Goldenoch Moor, Wigtownshire,^[3] is in the National Museum at Edinburgh; where is also another hammer formed of a greenstone pebble (31/2 inches), with broad and deep cup-shaped depressions on each face, and much worn at one end, which came from Dunning, Perthshire. There are other examples of the same kind in the same museum. Many have, indeed,

1. Tr. Dev. Assoc., vol. xii. p. 71.
2. Montg. Coll., vol. xiv. p. 273.
3. Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., vol. iv. p. 440; xiv. p. 127; xv. p. 108.