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A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE found not far from Billington near Leighton Buzzard ; another example, shorter, thicker and heavier, was found at Soulbury near the same place. Small celt-like implements, especially when one side is left flat, are commonly termed chisels or gouges. A specimen from Waulud's Bank, Luton, is illustrated in fig. 44. Large attenuated examples have been described as picks. Fig. 44. Celts from Dunstable and Waulud's Bank, Luton, Kempston and Pavenham are illustrated and described by Sir John Evans. Of perforated hammers but few Bedfordshire examples are recorded. A hammer made from a perforated quartzite pebble was found at Barton- in-the-Clay in 1903, and near by was found a small drilled bead-like pebble of translucent quartz. Hammer-stones unperforated tor handles, and sometimes in the form of pebbles, occasionally occur, but it is not easy to detect the marks of wear in every case. An example of a quartzite hammer-stone with both ends worn off by hammering, from Waulud's Bank, Luton, is illustrated in fig- 45- 162