1148 The Stone Ax in Vermont, [ December, 
more beautiful specimens of ancient workmanship than in these 
celts, some of which, made from a compact, fine-grained serpen- 
tine of richly shaded green, are most elegant objects. 
There are beds of this handsome material in several localities 
in the State, and it is remarkable that no objects made from it 
have been found except some of the celts. Most of the celts ot 
the second and third groups are much wider than thick, but a 
few are either cylindrical or quadrangular in cross- -section, The 
globular form seen in celts from other localities never appears in 
Vermont. Our celts appear to have been mainly worked from 
pieces split from larger masses rather than as in some places from 
pebbles. A form of celt which may be regarded as a modifica- 
Fic.5. X % Fic. 6. X % 
tion of that shown in Fig. 5 is shown in Fig.6. This is obvi- 
ously a hand ax, and although made from porphyry is finely 
smoothed and polished. Possibly this is one of those specimens 
of which Lafiteau speaks when he says that they were not finished 
during a single lifetime, but were handed down as heirlooms to 
be highly valued. Certainly no short time would be sufficient 
for the manufacture of so perfect an implement from so hard a 
stone. This specimen is four and a half inches in length and 
two and a half in width across the edge. In cross-section it is 
‘Celts of our fourth class are triangular, as is that shown in 
Be >. Some of these are rude, others finely wrought. The 
men figured i is a very beautiful example of this type of celt. 
made of = brown oo marked by a band of 
