164 On Stone and Flint Implements, by James Hardy. 



occasioned by the wet soil. There are several rusty dashes of 

 iron-markings on the surface. It is almost quite fresh, with the 

 striae of its last dressing not yet effaced. The concave fracture 

 on it was occasioned by the curiosity of its finder. 



It is smoothly dressed all over, sloped towards the sides, along 

 which a smooth narrow space runs. The wedge-shaped broad 

 end is equally, but rather abruptly, owing to the thickness of the 

 implement, sloped from both sides ; the cutting edge is some- 

 what oblique ; it is finely smoothed and sharpened. The surface 

 appears to have had several rubbings lengthways, before it re- 

 ceived the general polish. It appears to have been brought nearly 

 to an edge at the butt. The length is seven inches ; the breadth 

 1£ inch at the butt ; and so on increasing from 2 to 3 inches ; 

 thickness 1^ inch ; weight 21 oz. Figures shewing, how such a 

 celt was hafted, in an opening cut through the end of the handle 

 are given in Worsaae's " Primeval Antiq. of Denmark," p. 12, 

 note; and Evans's "Stone Implements," pp. 138, 139, fig. 91, 

 92. This fine celt was found at Burnfoot, near Threeburnford, 

 in Lauderdale, in the spring of 1876, and was brought in Sep- 

 tember to the Club meeting at Kimmerghame, by Mr Eobert 

 Penton ; who also brought a broken celt of the same material, 

 which he himself had found; and he had the fragments of 

 another. It may also be noted'that Mr Renton likewise exhibited 

 a bronze celt, a little larger, but almost similar to the one 

 figured by Mr Bolam in the Club's Proceedings, vol. vii., plate 

 V., which had been found in 1861, between Clint's Mill and 

 Eashley Hall, near the old road to Melrose. A small slate-celt 

 from Lauder Common remains yet to be figured. 



2. Plate II., fig. 3. A short, neat, conico-wedge shaped celt, 

 polished all over, rounded sloped to the sides, with a slight trace 

 of a lateral area ; nearly equally sloped on both surfaces to 

 the cutting face, and ground down. to a sharp edge. It is of a 

 finely freckled syenitic greenstone, and is considerably weather- 

 eaten by exposure. It may have been broken at one time, and 

 repaired. The length is 4£ inches ; breadth lf-2f inches ; 

 thickness, £ inches ; weight 8£ oz. This was found by Mr Alex- 

 ander Leitch, tenant of Fairneyside, in Blaikie's field, where 

 once existed a camp. Mr L_itch once had a greenstone cist of 

 the kind, with a long streak of white, all down the edge on one 

 side, found at Long-Yester. 



