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similar depressions was recently found in a subterranean chamber 
at La Tourelle, near Quimper, in Brittany. 
No. 19 is a circular stone with a groove on both sides ; this 
groove may have served for sharpening the point of a knife or 
dagger. Similar stones were in use at a comparatively late date. 
One was found at Nydam in Slesvig with objects belonging to 
the Iron period. It is figured by Engelhardt, and is classed as 
a whetstone. 
Objects such as Nos. 32 to 42 in this Case, and Nos. 4 to 21 
in Case A 27, are usually regarded as spindle whorls ; probably 
some of them have been used to give increased momentum to 
spindles. For an ancient example from Peru, attached to the 
wooden spindle, see No. 10, Case A 52 ; and for modern examples 
from Africa (?) attached to the spindles, see Nos. 35 to37,CaseE4. 
No. 15, Case A 27, from its oval form, could not, however, 
have been applied to this purpose. Many so called spindle 
whorls have probably been used as buttons. 
Many of the larger drilled stones, such as Nos. 14, 15, and 28, 
Case A 26, and Nos. i, 2, and 3, Case A 27, have been called 
net-sinkers, and some may have been used for such a purpose. 
A 27. 
In addition to the drilled stones in this Case, which are similar 
to those in Case A 26, already described, some whetstones and 
polishing stones are exhibited. Nos. 24 and 25 are whetstones. 
No. 25 shows much wear. No. 33 is a whetstone now in use by 
jewellers ; like No. 25 it is hollowed by the sharpening of tools. 
The whetstones exhibited probably belong to the metallic period. 
Nos. 22 and 23 are polishing stones. The commencement 
of drilling on each of the four sides of No. 23 may be noticed ; 
probably, when completed, it would have been worn on the 
person, as was doubtless the case with the objects Nos. 24 and 25. 
Nos. 31 and 32 are regarded as hones by some archaeologists ; 
Sir William Wilde classes them as burnishers. American 
archaeologists call them gorgets. 
Specimens of sharpening and polishing stones are exhibited 
from Denmark, in Case A 38, Nos. 22 to 27. Nos. 23 to 25 
belong to the early Iron period. No. 37 is a drilled axe-hammer 
from Ireland. 
A 27. 
Scotland. 
A small series of stone objects from Scotland is shown in this 
Case. No. 39 is a fine drilled axe-hammer. 
Nos. 40 to 45 are spindle whorls," of which probably not 
