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has the cutting edge oblique. The axe from Strathdon, Aberdeen- 

 shire, has also an oblique cutting edge. An axe found at Ingle- 

 stone Rigg, Durisdeer, about the year 1823, approaches a chisel 

 in form, being 5f inches in length by 2 inches in greatest breadth, 

 and |-inch in thickness. It has the sides sharp, and is slightly 

 imperfect. Another axe (13) of felstone, found at Barhill, Keir, 

 7 inches in length by 2|^ inches in breadth, has flat sides and a 

 very sharp cutting edge. It appears to have been little, if at all, 

 used. The cutting end of another axe found in excavating in 

 Dumfries has been utilised as a hammer-stone — the fractured end 

 being considerably worn by use. The butt end (14) of what has 

 been a large axe of a characteristic South of Scotland form, was 

 found at Durisdeer, and is also in the collection. When perfect, 

 it must have been about 11 inches in length- A very common type 

 of axe found in the South of Scotland, and principally in Wigtown- 

 shire, l.as narrow, straight, flat sides, and a butt terminating in 

 an edge equalling in sharpness that of the cutting end, They are 

 mostly of felstone. A fine specimen in the National Museum in 

 Edinburgh is 12| inches in length. 



Ferf orated Hammers, <&:c. — The implements of this class are 

 fairly numerous in the collection, and admit of being divided into 

 three varieties, viz. — (1) Those which show special care in the 

 finish, and are sometimes ornamented ; (2) those of large size and 

 mostly of rude finish, their whole condition indicating rather a 

 utilitarian purpose than a warlike character ; and (3) those formed 

 mostly of waterworn pebbles pierced with a half hole through the 

 broad face. Of the first variety there are three specimens in the 

 Museum. The first (17) an axe-hamraer of gneissic stone, 4 inches 

 in length, with a haft hole |-incli in diameter, has the upper end 

 ground flat and the cutting edge purposely blunted or rounded. 

 Round the haft hole on either face is an incised line by way of 

 ornament. This weapon was found at Amisfield. The second 

 (16) an axe-hammer of granite stone, is stated in the New 

 Statistical Account of Dumfriesshire to have been found in a cairn 

 in the parish of Tynron, somewhere about the year 1800. The 

 New Statistical Account of Dumfriesshire (p. 475) states that 

 there were two cairns examined at Tyni'on, each of which con- 

 tained a cist and a stone-hammer. The weapon is 6J inches in 

 length by 2-| inches in breadth across the widest part, and 

 2 inches thick. The third specimen (18), which is a beautifully 



