256 The Grave-mounds of Derbyshire, and their Contents. 



are frequently called flint knives, or scrapers, but the term is so 



indefinite that it is for the present better discarded than retained. 

 Flint celts are occasionally found. An example here shown was 

 discovered in a very interesting barrow, called Grospel Hillock, 



at Cow Dale near Buxton,* by Captain Lukis. It measured 

 41 inches in length. 



The Stone implements consist of celts or adzes, and ham- 

 mer-heads ; the usual form of the Derbyshire stone celt is much 

 the same as the flint example just given, but other shapes do 

 occasionally occur. The examples here given, show three of 



the forms of hammer or axe-heads, or mauls, Avhich are found. 



In size, these implements vary from three 

 to eleven inches in length.t The usual 

 materials of which they are composed are 

 basalt, quartz-pebbles, argillaceous slate, 

 [asper, green and black schist, sands 

 tone, etc. 



Whetstones, spindle whorls, balls of 



* See the " Reliquary," vol. viii. (1867). 



t The lurgest found in Derbyshire of which I possess any record, measured 

 11 inches in length, 4| iuehes in width, 33 inches in depth, and weighed 10^ lbs. 



