1885. ] The Stone Ax in Vermont, 1147 
Still another type of celt is shown in Fig. 3, which was found 
in the same locality. The usually flat surfaces are beveled from 
a median ridge, as shown in the figure, to the sides. The mate- 
rial is a greenish quartzite and the specimen is very well finished, 
though not as well as many. It is six anda half inches long, 
two and a half wide and rather more than one inch in thickness, 
The second class of celts are quadrangular in outline. Some 
of these are large and rude, others small and well made, but as a 
class they are rude and apparently made for rough work. In 
some cases, however, they are not 
strong, but, as in case of the speci- 
men shown in Fig. 4, the material is 
some sort of slate, and too brittle for 
other than light work. Much larger 
specimens of this sort than that shown 
in Fig. 4, which is only four inches 
long, occur. One of these is of blu- 
ish serpentine, and was polished over 
the entire surface, although it was not 
worked smooth, and hence retains the 
irregularities made by the cleavage, 
It is nine inches long and more than 
four wide, 
On page 433 of Volume xv of this Fig. 4. X % 
journal, figure 6, is shown a specimen which illustrates the gen- 
eral form of the typical celt of this class, only substituting for the 
concave end an edge like the upper one in the figure. Very many 
are ground to an edge at each end, and these are much more 
_ carefully made than others which have but one edge. 
Fig. 5 shows a type of our third class of celts, those which 
are quadrangular in outline but narrower at one end than the 
other, and the narrow end, if there is but one edge, is always 
that which is blunt. Often in celts of this form each end is 
brought to an edge, as in the case of Fig. 5, though this 
is less common than in celts of the second class. These 
celts are mostly very nicely made and of handsome mate- 
rial, and often beautifully polished. Some of them resemble 
closely the small celts found in the Swiss lakes, For the most 
part they are not of large size, averaging, perhaps, three or four 
inches in length. In none of our stone implements do we find 
