SCRAPERS. 



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these were scarcely ever made of that material. There are, 

 however, in Copenhagen two such hatchets, in which ad- 

 vantage has been ingeniously taken of a natural hole in the 

 flint. It is very doubtful, whether this class of implements 

 truly belongs to the Stone age. The pierced axes are 

 generally found in graves of the Bronze period, and it is 

 most probable that this mode of attaching the handle was 

 used very rarely, if at all, until the discovery of metal had 

 rendered the process far more easy than could have been the 

 case previously. 



The so-called " scrapers," (figs. 74, 75, 105, 106), are 

 oblong stones, rounded at one end, which is brought to a 

 bevelled edge by a series of small blows. One side is flat, 

 the other, or outer, one is more or less convex; sometimes 

 they have a short handle, which gives them very much the 

 appearance of a spoon. They have been found in England, 

 France, Denmark, Ireland, Switzerland and other countries. 



FIG. 76. 



FIG. 77. 



FIG. 78. 



Esquimaux Scraper. 



They vary from one to four inches in length, and from half 

 an inch to two inches in breadth. A modern Esquimaux 

 scraper is represented in figs. 76-78. These modern speci- 

 mens are in form identical with the old ones. 



