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 per- 

 forated stone hammer 6| in. long was found at Cark, in a ploughed field. 

 Its width was 3 fin. and depth aj 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 7! in., being 3! in. wide and about aj in. thick. It 

 bears evidence of use at its shaped end. A hammer found in 1886 at 

 Barrow-in-Furness, measuring loj in. in length and 4! 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 1 90 1. 3 



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, Black- 

 stone Edge, Bolton-le-Moors, Broadwood Moor, Brown Wardle Hill, 

 Broughton ; Bull Hill, Bury ; Cheetham, Chorlton upon Medlock ; Chip- 

 ping, 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. 



1 Evans, Stone Imp. p. 178. * Described in the Antiquary, Nov. 1901, p. 323. 



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