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straijj;ht sides like No. 100. It is ground at the cutting edge imly, and lias 

 evidently been shaped by sawing. It was found at Aughnahoy, on the banks 

 of the Bann, three feet below the brick-clay, and is 7f inches long by 21 inches 

 broad at the cutting edge, and |-inch'thiek. No. 104 is a chisel which was 

 found at Culbane. It has been shaped bj' sawing, and is 7 inches long by 

 li inches broad, and | inch thick. A number of chisels of various sizes are 

 seen in figs. 105, 106, and 107. No. 105 is a thin, sharp-edged chisel which was 

 found at Culbane. From the sharpness of its side edges it might as readily 

 be called a knife as a chisel. It is 5| inches long, 1| inches broad, and three- 

 eighths of an inch thick. No. 107 is a stout little chisel which was found at 

 Culbane, and has been shaped by sawing. It has got a slight grinding 

 on the two principal faces, and is 3^ inches long, J of an inch 

 broad, and f of an inch thick. It has a sharp-cutting edge. Ifo. 106 was 

 also found at Culbane, and has been formed by sawing. No grinding is 

 visible except at the edge. It is 4-J- inches long, 1 inch broad at the cutting 

 edge, I an inch thick. No. 4 was also found at Culbane. It has 

 apparently been formed by sawing, but has been ground all over, and has an 

 edge at each end, both equally sharp. No. 5 may, from its weight, be rather 

 looked on as a narrow axe. It is 10 inches long, and has been formed on the 

 right side by sawing. It is 1^ inches thick at its thickest part, and If inches 

 broad. It was found in the bottom of the Largy bog near the Bann on the 

 county Antrim side. No. 6 comes from Culbane. It is S inches long, \ of an 

 inch broad, and \ an inch thick. It has been formed by sawing, and has got 

 a slight grinding on both faces. There is only one edge, which is shown at the 

 lower end of the figure. There are many other axes and chisels having long, 

 clean-cut sides, which could hardly be formed by contmuous rubbing in one 

 groove by the point of a flake. Some are 7 to 10 inches long, and I believe 

 the straight sides in these implements could only be formed by one long saw, 

 and the only saw I can imagine that would fit the case is a rod or frame of 

 wood having flint teeth fixed therein. 



In figs. Ill and 112 I show two axes of a kind which Sir John Evans 

 draws attention to in his paper " Discoveries of Stone Implements in Lough 

 Neagh." One kind is ground flat crosswise, while it is convex lengthwise. 

 No. 112 is of this kind, two views of which are given: that .shown to the 

 left has the usual convexity of an axe; that to tlie right gives a three- 

 quarter view, showing position of the other face that is ground flat crosswise, 

 while it is convex lengthwise. It was found at Grangemore, within about 

 a mile of the mouth of the Bann, and is 3|- inches long. No. Ill is an axe 

 which for the greater part is equally convex on both faces, but has been 

 ground flatter uu one side at the edge, thus making it into a sort of 



