awl, and other objects. Another occurred in a barrow at Everley,[1] with a bronze chisel, an unused whetstone of freestone, and a hone of bluish colour; and another with a skeleton, a stone hammer, a bronze celt, a bone tube, and various other articles in a barrow at Wilsford.[2] Two or three of these sharpening stones, found in a barrow at Roundway, near Devizes, are in the Museum of the Wilts Archaeological Society. One of these has been figured.[3] A pebble with shallow grooves on each face found at Mount Caburn, Lewes,[4] may possibly belong to this class of implements, though it may have been a hammer. A rubbing-stone of this kind was found at Topcliffe,[5] Yorkshire, but not in a barrow.
Sir R. C. Hoare considered whetstones of this kind to have been used for sharpening and bringing to a point, pins and other implements of bone, and they seem well adapted for such a purpose, and are still so used by the Eskimos. They may also have served for smoothing the shafts of arrows. Serpentine pebbles with a groove in them are used for straightening arrow-shafts by the Indians of California,[6] and shaft rubbers of sandstone have been found in Pennsylvania.[7]
The Rev. W. C. Lukis found a similar stone (414 inches) in a barrow in Brittany. It is now in the British Museum. Another from a dolmen in Lozère[8] has been thought to be for sharpening the points of bone instruments. Stones of the same form have been found in Germany; two from the cemetery near Monsheim[9] are preserved in the Museum at Mainz. They are rather more elongated than the English examples. A specimen very like Fig. 185 has been found in Denmark.[10] They seem also to occur in Hungary.[11] I have a grooved stone of this kind from the Lago di Varese, Como, where the manufacture of flint arrow-heads was carried on extensively. An object found with polished stone instruments in the cave Casa da Moura, Portugal,[12] not improbably belongs to this class of grooved sharpening stones.
- ↑ Hoare, "South Wilts," p. 182. "Cat. Dev. Mus.," No. 97.
- ↑ "S. W." p. 209.
- ↑ Arch., vol. xliii. p. 423. A. C. Smith, "Ants. of N. Wilts," p. 68. "Cat. Devizes Mus.," No. 172a.
- ↑ Arch., vol. xlvi. p. 435, pl. xxiv. 20.
- ↑ Reliquary, N. S., vol. v., 1891, p. 47.
- ↑ Arch. f. Anth., vol. ix. p. 249.
- ↑ 13th Rep. Bureau of Ethn., 1896, p. 126.
- ↑ "Musée préh.," No. 593.
- ↑ Lindenschmit, "A. u. h. V.," vol. ii. Heft viii. Taf. i. 2. Zeitsch. des Vereins für Rhein. Geschichte, &c., in Mainz, vol. iii. Archiv für Anthrop., vol. iii. Taf. ii. Rev. Arch., vol. xix. pl. x. 2.
- ↑ Sophus Müller, "Stenalderen," fig. 196.
- ↑ Zeitsch. f. Eth., 1891, p. 89.
- ↑ Trans. Ethnol. Soc., N. S., vol. vii. p. 49.
- ↑ Sussex Arch. Coll., vol. ix., p. 120, whence the cut is borrowed. Arch. Journ., vol. xiii. p. 184; xv. 90.
- ↑ Arch. Journ., vol. x. p. 356. "Chichester Vol.," p. 52.