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that it could not cut, and has a curved outline. The picking to 

 form the slope to the narrow edge is still visible. The blunt end 

 has some dints in it, as if it had been put to service. This pon- 

 derous weapon may have been used in slaughtering cattle, or as 

 a mallet for driving piles or stobs. From a trace of bog-iron 

 ore adhering to it, it appears to have been lying in moist soil. 

 It is from the Paxton estate, and was furnished by David Milne 

 Home, Esq. Axe-hammers oi this shape are figured in Wor- 

 saae's "Primeval Antiquities of Denmark," p. 16; Jewitt's 

 "Grave Mounds," p. 112, fig. 136 ; and Evans's " Ancient Stone 

 Implements of Great Britain," pp. 172, 173, 175. This last, fig. 

 127, of micaceous grit^ comes the nearest in outline, and was 

 found in a barrow at Pudstone, near Bridlington, by the Pev. 

 William Greenwell, F.S.A. In it, however, the faces were 

 flattened, and not hollowed as in this ; but the thick end was 

 somewhat flattened. ' ' It lay behind the shoulders of the 

 skeleton of an old man lying on his left side, with his right hand 

 on his head, and his left to his face. Before the face was a 

 bronze knife 4 inches long, with a single rivet to fasten it to its 

 handle, and close to the axe-hammer lay a pointed flint-flake re- 

 chipped on both faces." 



2. Plate I., fig. 2. A flattish, perforated, stone-adze or hoe ; 

 wedge or celt-shaped, with rounded conical end. It is of a finer 

 greywacke than the preceding, and has been smoothed all over 

 so far as the material admitted of being so dressed. One of the 

 broad surfaces is more convex than the other ; they slope off 

 rounded to the sides, where there is no smooth lateral space, all 

 being rounded. The length is 6| inches ; breadth 3 to 3£ inches ; 

 thickness 1£ inch ; weight 35£ oz. ; aperture of the haft-hole, 1 

 inch ; it is drilled in a neat workmanlike manner, from the two 

 sides, being narrowest in the middle. The aperture is 2J inches 

 from the conical end, and 3 from the other. The cutting end is 

 quite blunt, and damaged. The surface has been scratched with 

 the harrows, or ploughs. It is incapable of scooping out wood 

 as an adze, unless the wood had been burned. Possibly it may 

 have been a hoe, for digging or cultivating the soil. There is a 

 similar implement formed of greenstone, figured by Mr Evans, 

 p. 169., fig. 122, as found at Fireburn Mill, Coldstream, and now 

 in the collection of the Pev. W. Greenwell, F.S.A. It has the 

 aperture more in the centre, but, like this, "the shaft-hole tapered 



