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surface of both legs near the corner being cut almost flat. 

 This is also eminently the case with the inner side of the 

 thick part of the piece, the cross section of which might almost 

 be said to be triangular. The stump end of it is slightly convex. 

 The wood, which was intact and solid when it was found, 

 has warped a good deal and has formed deep cracks. It is of 



Fig. 44. Hammer-like implement (fragment?) made of a crooked branch. 

 Dunholm. ^/2.4. 



a red fir or larch, 'the probabilities being in favour of its being 

 a larch'. 



The only visible traces of workmanship appear in the 

 corner of the inner angle, where the natural rounding of the 

 branch has been cut away, and in the uniform rounding of the 

 rest of the surface. Whether it was part of an implement, and 

 if so, what part, it is hardly possible to decide with certainty. 



