A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE
directions at the butt; the edge is narrower, and one side is much more rounded than the other. The edge is carefully ground, but further up the face the surface shows that it has been picked into form.'[1]
A little to the south another stout axe-hammer was found at Lindale. The implement has considerable breadth, and the butt is square. A perforated stone hammer 6¾ in. long was found at Cark, in a ploughed field. Its width was 3⅝ in. and depth 2¼ in. It shows considerable signs of abrasion at the pointed end. Still further south, at Flookburgh, several stone hammers are reported to have been found.
In the Furness peninsula a number of stone hammers are recorded. One from Harbarrow, near Dalton, now in the museum at Warrington, has a length of 7¾ in., being 3½ in. wide and about 2½ in. thick. It bears evidence of use at its shaped end. A hammer found in 1886 at Barrow-in-Furness, measuring 10¼ in. in length and 4¼ in. in width, is the largest yet found in the district. Further south, at North Scale, in the Island of Walney, a perforated stone hammer was found as recently as 1901.[2]
A curious implement comes from Bank Ground, on the east margin of Coniston Water. It is about 8 in. long, broad and heavy at one end and narrow at the other. The thick end is perforated with a narrow hole. One side is flat, the other is formed into two rounded ridges. It is suggested that this implement, which was hardly a hammer of usual character, may have been carried and used suspended by a cord to the waist. It has been considerably used.[3]
5. Classification of Localities
Flint chippings, and small worked flints.—Bleasdale; Besom Hill, Blackstone Edge, Bolton-le-Moors, Broadwood Moor, Brown Wardle Hill, Broughton; Bull Hill, Bury; Cheetham, Chorlton upon Medlock; Chipping, Clitheroe; Cow Heys, Crow Knoll, Culvert Clough, Flower Scar Hill, Foxton Edge, Great Winning Gulf, Hades Hill, Haulgh, Helpet Edge, Hollingworth Lake, Hunger Hill, Kersal Moor, Knoll Hill, Longden End Moor; Longridge; Lower Moor; Mellor; Middle Hill; Moss Side, Radcliffe; Readycon Dean, Rushy Hill, Todmorden, Tooter Hill, Trough Edge, Turnshaw Hill, Wardle Moor, Well i' th' Lane.
Over Sands.—Broughton, Cartmel, Dendron, Gleaston Castle, Grange-over-Sands, Hawkshead, High Haume, Kirkby Ireleth, Torver.
Arrow-heads.—Blackstone Edge, Bull Hill, Culvert Clough, Foxton Edge, Great Winning Gulf, Hunger Hill, Knoll Hill; Longridge Fells; Middle Hill, Tooter Hill, Walsden Moor; Wavertree.
Stone celts.—Blackpool, Castleshaw, Chorlton cum Hardy, Droylesden, Flixton, Lancaster, Leagram (2), Liverpool Docks, Longridge, Milnrow, Morecambe, Newton-le-Willows, Orford, Pendle (Windy Harbour), Pilling, Royton, Saddleworth, Salwick, Walmsley, Wardle, Wavertree, Weeton, Wiswell.
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