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a pronounced extent. The specimen was found at Horncastle' 

 and was presented to the Museum by the Rev. J. Conway 

 Walter. It is 6J inches long, 3J inches broad, 2j inches deep, 

 2 J inches wide at the hammer end, 3lbs. 9 ozs. in weight, and 

 the diameter of the perforation is t\ inches (see fig. 4). In 

 Sir John Evans' ' Ancient Stone Implements of Great Britain ' 

 (1897, pp. 198-9), is a figure of an almost precisely similar axe 

 head, which was found in draining at Walsgrave-upon-Sowe, 

 near Coventry. Of this Sir John says that it is a rather 

 clumisity made implement ' of greenstone, the surface of which 



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Pre-historic Weapons from Lincolnshire (reduced). 



has considerably suffered from weathering.' Apparently the 

 Walsgrave and Horncastle axes are precisely similar as regards 

 size, shape, condition of weathering, etc., so that the illustration 

 in Sir John Evans' book might have stood for the Horncastle 

 specimen. 



Of a somewhat unusual form is a perforated hammer head 

 made from a fine-grained grey igneous rock (fig. 5). It has 

 rounded edges, and the perforation is one inch across in the 

 centre, and widens out towards the edge to as much as 2 J inches. 

 This specimen appears to be of the type which Sir John Evans 

 alludes to as hammer-heads ' of a simple character, being made 



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