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tainly it seems to be the first appearance in this area of an ax with 

 both ends alike.""* It is needless to say tiiat tiie use. of tliis imple- 

 ment must remain in doubt until other exami:)les are brouj^ht to 

 light. 



There are represented in jjlate 11 a number of artificially formed 

 flattened stones which generally have their surfaces more or less con- 

 Aex and their margins rountled. The characteristic features of one 

 type are indentations, one in each margin, but there is no encircling 

 groove comiecting them by which the ax was hafted to a handle. 

 There are two divisions of this type, the first group including those 

 in which both sides of the notched area are of about equal size, im- 

 parting a dumb-bell shape as seen in pi'ofile, and a second {D) where 

 they are unequal. The former is well shown in a specimen {(') in the 

 Heye collection, as are all those considered under this heading. Plate 

 11, A, rejjresents a chisel and B a celt-like form with point cut off 

 square. 



No difference in size between the two halves of the object appears 

 in plate 11, 6', where both parts are crescentic when seen in jirofile. 

 The surface of the notch is convex and has angular edges. 



The general form of the specimen, plate 11, C\ is like a dumb- 

 bell, the two halves being about spherical, and so flattened on the 

 sides that the length is less than one-fourth of the width of the 

 longer diameter. The general form' of plate 11, D, is circular, but 

 its upper half is much reduced, as compared with the lower. The 

 indentations separating the two are deep and the sjDecimen is a com- 

 paratively thin object with blunt edges. Its nearest ally, belonging to 

 the same type, in which two sides are slightly incurved and two re- 

 main flat and oblong, is rectangular in form. 



In plate 11, Z>, the margin notches are very deep, imparting a spool 

 shape to the implement when seen in profile, although the curves of 

 the upper and lower halves differ somewhat in size. 



The objects represented in plate 11, F, G, are stone implements 

 having more or less rectangidar profiles, angular sides, and flat, 

 imdecorated surfaces. It is not necessary to assimae that they were 

 ever furnished with special handles; they were more likely held in 

 the hand for the use they served. Although rudely made, there is 

 no doubt that E and H were artificially fashioned. Their forms 

 are not sj'mmetrical. In the implement figured in plate 11, /, 

 there is a marked triangular form, which, but for other features, 

 would be considered among the group designated as triangular 

 imi^lements. 



Plate 11, •/, represents a stone laiife and A', a petaloid celt. 



. "Mason, The Guesde Collection, p. 789, flg. 109. 

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