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ing bones being more compact, were taken out, when it was 

 discovered that one of the arms had been almost separated 

 from the shoulder by the stroke of a stone axe, and that u 

 fragment of the axe still remained in the bone. The axe 

 had been of greenstone, a material which does not occur in 

 this part of Scotland. There were also found with this 

 skeleton a ball of flint, about three inches in diameter, which 

 was perfectly round and highly polished, and the head of an 



FIG. 74. 



FIG 75. 



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arrow, also of flint, but not a particle of any metallic 

 substance."* 



Another class of stone hatchets are those which are pierced 

 for the handle, as in pi. 1, fig. 2. From the nature of flint, 



* New Statist. Ace. Kirkcudbrightshire, vol. iv., p. 332. Quoted by Wilson, 

 Prehis. Ann. of Scotland, 2d ed. vol. i., p. 187. 



