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XXIII. 
OT A POLISHED STONE IMPLEMENT OE NOYEL EORM, 
AND ITS PEOBAELE USE. By W. EEAZER, E.E.C.S.I. 
; [Eead May 27, 1889.] 
^Phe implement now exhibited, made of fine polished diorite, is of unique 
:hape, so far as my observations extend, no similar specimen having 
['alien under my notice in any archeeological museum. It was ob- 
sained by me in June, 1888. Its possessor stated it was discovered 
, few months before, together with a small bronze axe with orna- 
;aented blade, and a fragment of the bronze shank of a pin, upon the 
t noval of a large block of stone near the ruins of Coolmore Castle, 
t :ween Eathvilly and Hackettstown, on the borders of Co, Carlow. 
1 In shape it is a flattened ovoid, 4^ inches long, and about li inch 
tj.ck, tapering at either end rather abruptly to blunt rounded edges, 
limited for cutting, and divided about its centre into broader and 
BTower segments, separated by oval hollows that indent the sides, 
