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polished, and at the broader end presenting' a fine semi-lunar cutting 

 edge. In the same barrow were as many as sixty rudely-made bone 

 implements, and a perforated stone hammer-axe. " This is the only 

 interment known to me in which stone celts and perforated hammer- 

 axes have been found together. It must belong to the time when 

 the former were in process of being superseded by the latter, or were 

 about to be so superseded. But even this interment, the richest of 

 any in objects of stone and bone, though regarded by both Cunnington 

 and Hoare as o£ the Stone age, cannot be accepted as strictly of that 

 period. This is proved by the insignificant bronze pin or awl found 

 with the interment, which is figured in ' Archaeologia ^ (xv., 125, 

 pi. iv., fig. 5), though not in ' Ancient Wilts.' " One of the most 

 beautiful and elaborately-polished stone celts known to Dr. Thurnam 

 was said to have been derived from a barrow near Stonehenge. It 

 was formerly in the Leverian Museum, and is now in the possession 

 of the Rev. H. H. Winwood, of Bath. It is a dark stone, with 

 delicate golden veins, polished all over, of a regular almond form, 

 sharply pointed at one end, and measures 7 by 3 inches, and not 

 more than 1 inch thick. It is of the rare type described by Mr. 

 John Evans, F.R.S., "Ancient Stone Implements,^^ p. 96 — 98, fig. 

 52. A stone hammer, found in a barrow (?18) of the Wilsford 

 group, is engraved at page 411 of the " Archseologia,'' vol. 43. Two 

 perforated axes, the one 8f, the other 7 inches long, both stated to 

 be from barrows near Stonehenge, are to be seen, one in the British 

 Museum, the other in the Christy collection. Both are of exceptional 

 size, much larger than any in the Stourhead Museum. The latter 

 is of beautiful greenstone, and finished with a groove at the edges. 

 Dr. Thurnam found four leaf-shaped javelin-heads of flint in an oval 

 barrow (No. 49) within a few yards of the western end of the low 

 earthwork known as the " smaller cursus,^' which are fully described 

 (and two of them figured) in the eleventh volume of the Society's 

 Magazine. Three of them are engraved in Mr. Evans' " Ancient 

 Stone Implements," p. 330. A flint knife, 2| inches in length, 

 chipped on the convex border, from a secondary interment in the 

 long barrow at Winterbourn Stoke, belongs to the Round BaiTow 

 period. It is engraved at page 420 of " Archaeologia," vol. xliii. 



