Gray] 624 [ Worked Flints. 



PLATE 7. 



FIG. 13. — SMALL ROUGHLY CHIPPED CELTS. 



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A large number of roughly-chipped flint celts have been 

 found in Co. Antrim, and the type is tolerably uniform, whether 

 the specimens are collected from the raised beach gravels, the 

 sites of settlements, river fords, or the general surface of the 

 ground. The celts are from 3 to 4 inches long, and from 1 to 

 \\ inches wide. The illustration gives an idea of the range of 

 forms. It is taken from a photograph of specimens found in the 

 river Bann, the sand-dunes at Portrush, and the hill-fort of 

 Mount Sandal overlooking" the salmon leap on the Bann, above 

 Coleraine. Similar forms have been found at Toombridge, the 

 gravels of Carnlough, Larne, Holywood, Cultra, and Ballyholme. 

 See a communication from the author in the Journal of the 

 Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland, Vol. 

 VIIL, Ninth Series, 1887-8, p. 505. 



FIG. 14. FLINT PICKS AND POLISHED CELTS. 



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Among the various forms of worked flints collected in Antrim 

 there is occasionally found a form that is more like a pick than 

 a celt, being rudely pointed at one end, and it may have been used 

 as an agricultural implement. It is quite distinct, and is shown 

 by the upper central example on Fig. 14. On each side is 

 one of the larger forms of flint celt. At the bottom are 

 shown four celts polished at the lower or cutting edge. Rarely, 

 flint celts are found with all the surface polished. No doubt 

 many of the roughly-chipped celts found were intended by the 

 maker to be polished more or less. In this, and all other classes 

 of worked flints, the rudeness of the chipping is not necessarily 

 an indication of antiquity. 



