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On the Ancient Stone and Flint Instruments, &c, of the 

 Borders, No. IV. By James Hardy. With Illustrations 

 by Robert Middlemas. 



The Plates, from the accurate drawings of Mr Middlemas, 

 bring out so well the character of a new set of Prehistoric Im- 

 plements, &c., with which members of the Club and others have 

 fnrnished me, since No. III. appeared, that it is almost superfluous 

 to dwell upon them, by giving minute descriptions. But as the 

 forms of several of them are hitherto unknown to our district, it 

 may be advisable to finish the series as particularly as when 

 it commenced. On this occasion I shall follow the sequence of 

 the figures on the plates, as it offers the advantage of immediate 

 reference. 



Plate VIII. 

 Fig. 1. This has been a Celt of great size, strength, and 

 weight, but it is broken at the butt end, to which it probably 

 tapered. It is of greenstone, of a finely freckled dark and light 

 gray, minutely mixed, and has been finely polished all over. It 

 is convex on both faces, and is marked out as being almost parallel 

 sided for a greater part of its length, or sub-oblong. The sides 

 are rounded, with scarcely a side area. The faces are convexly 

 and shortly sloped to a sharp edge ; this cutting edge being 

 slightly oblique. The side view is like Mr Evans' figure, No. 

 74, from Bridlington, which is from a greenstone celt. The 

 length is 7%, breadth at slope, 3£ ; in middle, 3£ ; at truncation, 

 2 j- ; thickness, l\ inches. Weight, 21b. 12oz. From Morpeth, 

 1869. Sent by Mr William Topley, F.G.S. 



Fig. 2. This Axe-hammer is of a coarsely granular porphyry, 

 of pale red felspar and quartz. It has a rough pitted appearance, 

 from the felspar having decomposed, and left the harder quartz 

 to project. It must have been long exposed to the atmosphere 

 to occasion this waste. It is rather a narrow elongated form of 

 this kind of implement. The cutting end is blunt, sloped equally ; 

 the stone is rounded a little and gently sloped to the truncated 

 end, which has been considerably battered down by blows, of 

 which the dints are sufficiently conspicuous. The hollow for the 

 handle is large, and nearly uniform in diameter, although widest 

 at the two external openings. Length, 6J inches ; (three from 

 the axe-edge to the perforation ; If diameter of the aperture ; If 



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