INTRODUCTION. 



[No. Ivii], but not in connection with a burial. Strong blades 

 similar in character to that figured at p. 47 have occurred in several 

 of the Wiltshire barrows opened by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, as 

 well as in other parts of England 1 . 



The perforated stone axe-hammer, on the contrary, could scarcely 

 have been used for any other purpose than that of offence, for the 

 edge, instead of being sharp, as in the case of the ordinary stone 



hatchet, is always rounded or squared 2 . This would be sufficiently 

 efficacious for assaulting an enemy, but could never have been 

 applied to such an use as that of cutting wood. The care bestowed 

 upon these axe-hammers, and the ornament which is found upon 

 some of them, are also greatly in favour of their having been 

 used as weapons, upon which so many peoples have been in the 

 habit of lavishing decoration. 



1 It is a curious circumstance, though it may be an accidental one, that all the 

 knife-daggers found by Messrs. Bateman and Carrington in the Derbyshire and 

 Staffordshire barrows, sixteen in number, were discovered with bodies unaccompanied 

 by any vessel of pottery. The same is the case with those found by Mr. Euddock on 

 the Yorkshire moors, and by myself on the wolds and on the moors. Sir R. Colt 

 Hoare found thirty-six daggers and knife-daggers with burnt and unburnt bodies, 

 the larger number, as is usually the case, with burials by inhumation. With twenty- 

 four of these no vessel of pottery occurred, five were with burnt bones enclosed in 

 urns, one was with two bodies and a single urn, and may have been placed with either 

 of the two, thus leaving only five instances where an urn and a dagger were found 

 together. Of these, two were with ' drinking-cups,' two with peculiarly -shaped urns, 

 and one with what was probably a ' food- vessel/ 



2 See Evans, Stone Impl. p. 175. 



