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is very carefully worked, so as to preserve the combination of a 

 more or less rounded contour with a fine toothed margin, admira- 

 bly adapted to their supposed use of scraping and preparing 

 skins for the various j)urposes for which these latter were 

 employed. 



Nos. 14, 15, 16, and 18 afford examples of the shorter and 

 smaller thumb scrapers. These are sometimes much larger ; we 

 have met with examples at Bradford of broad specimens as much 

 as three inches across. 



No 17 is an example of a long scraper, of which we have 

 several. These may have been used with the thumb, but 

 probably they were not infrequently attached to sticks. These 

 also vary in size, but in most of them the teeth at the apex have 

 been wrought with considerable care, and how it coidd ever have 

 been supposed that this was accidental surpasses belief, as none 

 but rats could have gnawed them so evenly, and we cannot 

 suspect that these animals could so serve hard flints. 



4. POETIONS OF CELTS. 



We once saw a series of three perfect Celts which were 

 exhumed from the diggings for drainage at the village of Crud- 

 well, Wilts. These had a fine outline, and were finely polished 

 at the sides, with a sharp pointed edge at the apex. 



Now of this shaped implement, the true Celt of the ancient 

 Britons, we have met with no perfect example in Dorsetshire ; 

 but, strange to say, we have several specimens of portions of 

 them. These were evidently parts of old Celts, and had proba- 

 bly been used when broken to take off flakes for other small 

 tools, and hence figs. 19 and 20 now represent flint cores, made 

 from what were formerly polished Celts. The sections of figs. 

 19 and 20 are polished quite smooth, and their apices present 

 sharp cutting edges. 



