colour, was found with a bronze dagger and a stone axe-hammer in an urn at Broughton[1] in Craven, in 1675.
Two perforated whetstones were found with a bronze dagger and pin in the Silk Hill Barrow,[2] Wilts. Another, with the perforation in a sort of loop at the end, was found with two daggers and a crutched pin of bronze, associated with burnt bones in a barrow at Normanton.[3] Whetstones, in some cases not perforated, have occurred in other Wiltshire barrows, associated with bronze daggers at Wilsford[4] and Lake,[5] and with flint daggers or spear-heads at Durrington.[6] The smooth stone found with a flint dagger in a barrow near Stonehenge,[7] may also possibly have been a whetstone. Two from barrows at Knowle,[8] Dorset, and Camerton, Somerset, have been figured by Dr. Thurnam. Another of the same kind was found in a barrow at Tregaseal,[9] St. Just, Cornwall, and two others with urns at Brane Common,[10] in the same neighbourhood. Others not perforated are recorded from Cottenham,[11] Cambs. One from Anglesea[12] has been figured.
Two of greenish stone (chlorite?) one 258 inches long, perforated at the end, were found at Drewton,[13] near North Cave, Yorkshire; and another of similar material, 2 inches long, was found near some "Picts' houses,"[14] Shapinsay, Orkney. Half of a whetstone was found with a bronze dagger and numerous flint flakes by Mr. Morgan in a barrow at Penhow,[15] Monmouthshire; and a much-used whetstone was found in a barrow near Scarborough,[16] but the form of neither is specified. Several, both pierced and otherwise, have been recorded from Scotland.[17] One with the boring incomplete was found with a flint knife in a cist at Stenton,[18] East Lothian, and another, perforated, with a thin bronze blade and an urn at Glenluce,[19] Wigtownshire. It appears possible that some of the stones found in Scotland and perforated at one end, described by Wilson[20] as flail-stones, may after all be merely whetstones. The perforated form is common in Ireland, and is usually found in connection with metal objects.[21] I have a narrow hone of rag-stone, perforated at one end, which was found with a remarkable hoard of bronze objects, including moulds for socketed celts and for a gouge, in the Isle of Harty, Sheppey. An almost identical whetstone is in the Zurich Museum.
Whetstones, perforated at one end, have occurred in the Swiss Lake-dwellings.[22] Most of those found in the ancient cemetery of Hallstatt,[23] in the Salzkammergut, were perforated in the same manner, and in- ↑ Thoresby's Cat. in Whitaker's "Duc. Leod.," p. 114.
- ↑ Hoare's "South Wilts," p. 194.
- ↑ Ibid., p. 199.
- ↑ Ibid., 209.
- ↑ Ibid., p. 211.
- ↑ Ibid., p. 172.
- ↑ Ibid., p. 164. "Cat. Devizes Mus.," No. 85.
- ↑ Arch., vol. xliii. p. 424.
- ↑ Arch., vol. xlix. p. 194.
- ↑ "Nænia Cornubiæ," 1872, p. 212.
- ↑ Arch. Journ., vol. xxviii. p. 247.
- ↑ Arch. Journ., vol. xxxi. p. 302.
- ↑ Arch. Journ., vol. xxi. p. 101.
- ↑ Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., vol. iv. p. 490.
- ↑ Arch. Journ., vol. xviii. p. 71. Lee's "Isca Silurum," pl. xlii. p. 108.
- ↑ Arch. Assoc. Journ., vol. iv. p. 105.
- ↑ P. S. A. S., vol. xii. p. 120; xxiii. p. 219; xxviii. p. 230.
- ↑ P. S. A. S., vol. xiv. p. 221.
- ↑ P. S. A. S., vol. xxii. p. 67.
- ↑ "Preh. Ann. of Scot.," vol. i. p. 188.
- ↑ Wilde's "Cat. Mus. R. I. A." p. 87.
- ↑ Perrin, "Et. Préhist. sur la Savoie," pl. xv. 12.
- ↑ Von Sacken, "Grabf. von Hallstatt," Taf. xix. Simony, "Alt. von Hallstatt," Taf. vi. 6, 7.