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average specimen of each class. The smallest celt of this class 
which I have seen is four and a half inches long, but most are 
much larger. A few of these linear celts are quite thin, in one 
case the material is common roofing slate of nearly uniform 
thickness and chisel-like form, and this implement could never 
have been intended for use as an ax, since the first blow would 
-probably have shattered it. In these celts we find often each of 
the wide surfaces flat, but in others, and this is the case with a 
majority of all classes, one surface is flat or nearly so, while the 
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other is more or less strongly convex. The flat surface is usually 
more highly polished than the other. 
In Fig. 2 we have a very unique example of the linear celt, 
both ends being sharpened and one transversely to the,other. It 
is not common to find each end ground to an edge, but I have 
seen only this specimen in which the line of one edge crossed 
that of the other. It is a very finely made implement of com- 
pact basalt. It was found several feet below the surface in the 
ubsoil, in Weybridge, by Mr. A. J. Stowe. It is nearly six 
ong and about one inch in greatest width. 
