112 A SUPPOSED NEOLITHIC SETTLEMENT. 



(g) Three hand hammers — one from the os sacrum of ox 

 (circumference io| inches) ; two others from the distal tibiae 

 of the Bos longifrons. The surface is cut everywhere with a 

 pointed tool of flint. This faint tooling is difficult to describe or 

 to represent ; but the same kind of workmanship will be found 

 noticed in the description given of a Lake-dwelling discovered at 

 Ehenside Tarn in Cumberland, which was first reported and 

 described in an article by myself, and afterwards more fully 

 treated by Mr. R. D, Darbishire, F.G.S., in the Archcuologia, vol. 

 xliv., pp. 273, 292. The work seems done with a sharp-pointed 

 flint, and carefully chiselled over by even short cuts. 



Wooden Implements. 



These may have been numerous during the stone period, as, 

 for example, to supply the hafts for drilled horns, &c. ; but 



Fig. 14. Bone handle Two-thirds natural size. 



owing to such relics being mixed up with leaves and branches, 

 the workmen would not readily discover or distinguish them 

 from the surrounding pieces of nattiral wood. 



{a) An implement of maple (Fig. 15), measuring 4 feet 7 

 inches in lengtli ; greatest widtli 2\ inches, and narrowest width 

 1^ inches ; of a thickness to suit the hand, sharpened to a spear- 

 point at one end, and rounded at the butt, with hand-grips for 

 use as a spear or more probably as a paddle. Only few of 

 similar implements have come into the collector's hands, 

 and from experience I can say that care must be taken 

 in drying and soaking such relics in glycerine, to save 

 them from warping and cracking, or even perishing alto- 

 gether. This process has been adopted with the imple- 

 ment now described, and the result is its almost perfect 



