208 Procec(lh}(jH ot Ihi Rnynl Trhh Acudem/j. 



a back, ami one is preserved for cutting. Some of these are rather cliisels, 

 shaped with an upright stem like an axe, and we know that the edge was 

 there before the small chisel was formed. 



There are some examples of flint axes of the ground and polished kind 

 found along the Bann and in the Bann valley, but I cannot say they are 

 plentiful ; I have only in all about ten or a dozen. I show two specimens in 

 figs. 70, 71. No. 70 has been polished all over, but it has not been sufficiently 

 ground to remove all traces of chipping. It is squared at the sides, and is 

 5 inches long and 2-^ inches broad at the edge. It was found at Culbane. 

 No. 71 is a fragment of a larger flint axe which has been very well finished. 

 In the portion that remains not a trace of chipping is visible, and it has been 

 nicely squared at the sides. A new edge has been first chipped and then 

 ground, but the new edge has again got chipped and broken in use. It is in 

 its present state 3|- inches long by 2 inches broad at the cutting edge. It 

 was found at Culbane. I show in No. 72 a polished axe, so well ground and 

 polished that not a single mark of chipping is visible. It is made not of flint 

 but of fine hard rock of greenish shade, somewhat jade-like in character, and 

 so hard that it cannot be scratched with a knife. It is nicely squared on the 

 sides like the two Hint axes last described, and is of inches long by 2\ inches 

 broad at the cutting edge. It was found close to the Bann, three miles north 

 of Kilrea. The finder let it drop on a stone, and a small piece of the butt 

 end was broken off. He then only brought away the larger piece, which was 

 sold to me. I asked him to go back arid try to find the smaller piece and 

 bring it to me. This he did, and was successful in finding it. The break was 

 a clean one, and now even, in its mended state I should say it is a unique 

 example. This is the only specimen of this kind of hard rock which as far as 

 I know has been found in the neighbourhood of the Bann or Lough Neagh. 

 From its hardness and superior finish it is more suitably classed with the flint 

 axes than with those of other rock, afterwards to be described. 



Boufjli-'pointed Flint Inndements. 



Eough, unpolished flint implements are plentiful along the shores of Lough 

 Neagh and banks of the Eiver Bann and for some distance on each side of the 

 river. The majority are pick-like implements made out of nodules of flint. 

 Some are 8 to 10 inches long, heavy at the butt, and ending in a point or 

 very narrow cutting edge. Those with cutting edges come nearest the kitchen- 

 midden axes ; therefore I shall describe that kind first. I show in No. 73 

 a very fine and typical specimen from Culbane, which was found while 

 digging up the diatomaceous clay. It is *1\ inches long, rather cylindrical or 

 rudely triangular near the butt, where it is 6 inches in circumference. The 



