THE STONE AGE IN NEW JERSEY. 1538 
grodved cobble stone specimens. A third specimen of diminutive 
axe is that given in Fig. 20. It is of a chocolate colored slate 
` not commonly found in use among our antiquities. It has been 
very carefully polished and probably had a fine edge. Its size 
varies little from the preceding, and its general appearance rather 
indicates it as an ornament, ‘a victory stone or charm,” rather 
than a weapon. They are not uncommon, and sometimes occur of 
a somewhat smaller size. Lastly, we figure (Fig. 21) a very rude 
axe or that and hatchet combined. As will be seen by the illus- 
tration, it presents many points of 
resemblance to both a hatchet 
proper and a spear head. That it 
is not the latter, however, is evi- 
dent from the fact that the base, 
being the natural surface of the 
stone, is uncut, and sufficiently 
broad to enable the specimen to 
stand upon it on a level surface. 
The cutting edge being on both 
sides and running into an obtuse 
point, gives some points in com- 
mon with a hatchet. It is, per- 
haps, even more than the jasper 
specimen (Fig. 17), a connecting 
ink between axes and _ hatchets, Ras =; 
and to these we will now direct . 
our attention. aa 
Harcurts.— What we here designate as hatchets, as distin- 
guished from axes, are carefully cut jasper specimens, having no 
blunt edge with which to give or receive a hammer-like blow. 
They are usually smaller than axes and vary less in shape. Before 
gaing into details with reference to the jasper specimens, we will 
mention the crude hatchet (Fig. 9) and ask a -comparison of it 
with the plate of a flint instrament given by Lubbock in Nilsson’s 
“Stone Age.” (See foregoing foot-note.) We consider this a very 
ancient “implement,” and it is one of several that rolled out of the 
gravelly bluff that skirts the Delaware River near Trenton, N. J. 
aving no blunt edge, we call it a hatchet, and from it have in 
_ Succeeding years been evolved, through accumulated skill, the more 
elaborate specimens. Prominently in this list stands the magnifi- 
Fig. 20. 
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