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VARIETIES OF GROOVED AXES. 



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of the ax has au elliptical section. There are, however, a few with the 

 back flattened; and while many of the second division may be similar in 

 section, and in having the groove extend entirely around, yet in this 

 class are to be placed nearly all of those only partly encircled by a 

 groove or showing some other section than the ellipse. 



Fig. 31. — Grooved ax, .showing 

 groove entirely around. 



Fig. 32. 

 der, 6 

 tirely around . 



Grouvfd ax, slen- 

 lowiuii groove en- 



With these exceptions, the second class of grooved stone axes com- 

 X^rises seven groups, which may be destvribed and tabulated as follows : 



A. Grooved entirely around, elliptical section, polls dressed in any 

 of the ways given above; three or four have the blunt-pointed edge 

 (figure 31, of granite, from Bradley county, Tennessee). 



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