A HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND 
in many places. At Aigle Gill, near Aspatria, a stone adze and a double- 
pointed stone; Allonby, a stone hammer; Bewcastle, six rude stone 
implements (hammer heads and perforated stones), also two stone adzes, 
and a stone axe; Blackford, polished stone celt; Blennerhasset, stone 
hammer ; Bootle, stone hammer and flint and quartz arrow-heads ; 
Broadfield, polished stone hammer; Burns Common, Threlkeld, stone 
hammer ; Carlisle, stone axes, pestle of greenstone, length 16 inches ; 
Castle Carrock, flint knives; Dearham, unpolished celt ; Distington, 
stone hammer; Drigg, stone axe; near Eaglesfield, unpolished stone 
celts ; Edenhall, Oxhouse Oaks, stone hatchets ; Ehenside (Gibb) Tarn, 
stone implements ; Garlands, near Carlisle, stone implements, flint arrow- 
heads ; Gelt Bridge, near Leafy Hill, flint knife ; Gosforth, stone axe ; 
Grinsdale Common, stone hammer ; Hallguard Farm, Birdoswald, per- 
forated stone hammer ; Hesket Newmarket, Gillfoot, stone implements 
and beads, and pieces of flint; Holm Cultram, Highlaws and Souther- 
field, stone implements, celts ; Inglewood Forest, large axe ; Ireby, stone 
hammer, thumb and finger stone ; Irton, flint spear-head, polished stone 
axe ; Irton Fell, unpolished celt ; Irthington, flint spear-head ; Keswick, 
Burns Moor, perforated hammer-head of granite ; Keswick, Castle Rigg 
Stone Circle, stone implements ; Keswick, celt of greenstone, a large 
celt, stone celts (9), perforated implements (6); Kidburngill, stone 
hammer; Kirkbeck River, Bewcastle, stone implement ; Kirkoswald, 
perforated stone axe; Kirkoswald, The Castle, stone hammers; Lam- 
plugh, Wood Moor, stone hammer; Loweswater, stone hammer ; 
Melmerby, hammer stone; Millom, ancient British battle axe, 134 
inches long (? large stone celt), also Neolithic implements; Mow- 
bray, stone hammers, polished celts, stone adze ; Newtown of Mowbray, 
polished celts ; Ousby, perforated stone axe ; Penrith Beacon, polished 
greenstone celt ; Plumpton, Penrith, perforated stone axe; Ravenglass, 
stone axe; Red Dial, near Wigton, perforated stone axe or hammer ; 
Great Salkeld, stone celts ; Scotby, stone adze ; Solway Moss, hafted 
stone celt; Sprunston, St. Cuthbert’s, Carlisle, stone hammer; Wan- 
thwaite Crags, stone celt ; Wastwater Screes, flint arrow-head ; Wetheral, 
stone implements; and Wigton, stone hammers and celts.’ From this 
list it will appear that the most common are large stone celts or hatchets, 
the greater part of them made of felstone, and some of a shape almost 
peculiar to Cumberland (see fig. 61, Evans’s Ancient Stone Implements 
of Great Britain, ist edit., p. 106, and edit., p. 118). A fine typical 
one found at Horsegills in Cumberland, and now in the Carlisle 
Museum, is 15% inches long, 34 inches broad at widest part; 3 inches 
at the point, and 13 inches at the butt. Perforated hammers and heavy 
1 The authority for mentioning these implements will be found in ‘An Archeological 
Survey of Cumberland and Westmorland,’ communicated to the Society of Antiquaries of 
London by R. S. Ferguson, M.A., LL.M., F.S.A., and printed in Archaologia, vol. liii. ; see 
also his report as local secretary to the same body, Proc. S.4., n.s., vol. viii. pp. 491-4. 
See also Catalogue of the Museum formed on the occasion of the visit of the Royal Archeological 
Institute to Carlisle in 1859, printed by the Institute ; and see also Ancient Stone Implements, 
and edit., by Sir John Evans, K.C.B. : 
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