A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



directions at the butt ; the edge is narrower, and one side is much more 

 rounded than the other. The edge is carefully ground,^ but further up the 

 face the surface shows that it has been picked into form." 



A little to the south another stout axe-hammer was found at Lmdale. 

 The implement has considerable breadth, and the butt is square. A per- 

 forated stone hammer 6| in. long was found at Cark, in a ploughed field. 

 Its width was 3! in. and depth 2 J in. It shows considerable signs of 

 abrasion at the pointed end. StiU further south, at Flookburgh, several stone 

 hammers are reported to have been found. 



In the Furness peninsula a number of stone hammers are recorded. 

 One from Harbarrow, near Dalton, now in the museum at Warrington, 

 has a length of 7I in., being 3Hn. wide and about 2j in. thick. It 

 bears evidence of use at its shaped end. A hammer found in 1886 at 

 Barrow-in-Furness, measuring loj in. in length and 4i in. in width, is 

 the largest yet found in the district. Further south, at North Scale, in 

 the Island of Walney, a perforated stone hammer was found as recently 



as 1 90 1.' 



A curious implement comes from Bank Ground, on the east margin of 

 Coniston Water. It is about 8 in. long, broad and heavy at one end and 

 narrow at the other. The thick end is perforated with a narrow hole. One 

 side is flat, the other is formed into two rounded ridges. It is suggested 

 that this implement, which was hardly a hammer of usual character, may 

 have been carried and used suspended by a cord to the waist. It has been 

 considerably used.* 



5. Classification of Localities 



Flint chippings, and small worked fiints. — Bleasdale ; Besom Hill, Black- 

 stone Edge, Bolton-le-Moors, Broadwood Moor, Brown Wardle Hill, 

 Broughton ; Bull Hill, Bury ; Cheetham, Chorlton upon Medlock ; Chip- 

 ping, Clitheroe ; Cow Heys, Crow Knoll, Culvert Clough, Flower Scar 

 Hill, Foxton Edge, Great Winning Gulf, Hades Hill, Haulgh, Helpet Edge, 

 Hollingworth Lake, Hunger Hill, Kersal Moor, Knoll Hill, Longden End 

 Moor ; Longridge ; Lower Moor ; Mellor ; Middle Hill ; Moss Side, 

 RadclifFe ; Readycon Dean, Rushy Hill, Todmorden, Tooter Hill, Trough 

 Edge, Turnshaw Hill, Wardle Moor, Well i' th' Lane. 



Over Sands. — Broughton, Cartmel, Dendron, Gleaston Castle, Grange- 

 over-Sands, Hawkshead, High Haume, Kirkby Ireleth, Torver. 



Arrow-heads. — Blackstone Edge, Bull Hill, Culvert Clough, Foxton 

 Edge, Great Winning Gulf, Hunger Hill, Knoll Hill ; Longridge Fells ; 

 Middle Hill, Tooter Hill, Walsden Moor ; Wavertree. 



Stone celts. — Blackpool, Castleshaw, Chorlton cum Hardy, Droylesden, 

 Flixton, Lancaster, Leagram (2), Liverpool Docks, Longridge, Milnrow, 

 Morecambe, Newton-le- Willows, Orford, Pendle (Windy Harbour), Pilling, 

 Royton, Saddleworth, Salwick, Walmsley, Wardle, Wavertree, Weeton, 

 Wiswell. 



1 Evans, &tme Imp. p. 178. 2 Described in the Antijiwy, Nov. 1901, p. 323. 



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