300 On Urns and Antiquities of the Cheviot Hills. 



Dr Evans, in his " Stone and Flint Implements," p. 94, Fig. 47, 

 size \ of the original, represents a very beautiful polished celt 

 from Burradon, of which I have been favoured with an electro. 



Fig. 19. It belongs to his 

 1st section: "those sharp or 

 but slightly rounded at the 

 sides, and presenting a pointed 

 oval, or vesica piscis, in sec- 

 tion." The present imple- 

 ment "is of a very rare form, 

 inasmuch as it expands to- 

 wards the edge. It is of 

 ochreous coloured flint pol- 

 ished ail over, and is in the 

 collection of the Rev. W. 

 Greenwell, F.S.A. In outline 

 it much resembles one from 

 Grilmerton (near Edinburgh), 

 but this latter has the sides 

 flat, and a cutting edge at 

 each end." The celt from 

 Gilmerton, which Dr Evans 

 mistakingly places in East 

 Lothian, is preserved in the 

 Antiquarian Museum at Edin- 

 burgh. "The sides are flat, 

 with the angles rounded off, 

 and the blade expands 

 slighty at the ends, both of 

 which are sharpened. It is 

 | carefully polished all over." 

 This instrument was turned 

 up by the plough, as described 

 in the Minutes of the Society 

 of Antiquaries of Scotland, 

 for April 2nd, 1782. (Ac. of 

 Soc. Ant. of Scot., 1782, p. 

 91), (Dr Evans, pp. 118, 119). 

 "Hatchets expanding towards the edge," remarks Dr Evans, 

 p. 94, "are of more common occurrence in Denmark than in this 

 country, though even there they are rare when the expansion is 

 well defined." 



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Fig. 19. 



