DR. C. B. PLOWRIGHT ON NEOLITHIC MAN IN WEST NORFOLK. 253 
lioydon Fen, and I have a specimen from East Walton ; specimens 
have also been found at Barton Bendish, Beachamwell, Xarborough, 
Oxborough, and Westacre. Doubtless other examples exist in 
private collections in this part of the county. 
From the general type of the Massingham celts it is evident 
that the majority, at any rate, were never intended to receive the 
ultimate rubbing or grinding which completed the process of 
manufacture in the most highly finished class of these implements. 
One of the forms of these Massingham celts is elongated oval in 
outline, about 5i or 6 inches long by 2 to 21 inches wide (fig. 1) ; 
another is about the same length but narrower and thicker, being 
from 1^ to 1^ inches wide and from U to 2 inches in thickness 
(fig. 2). Others are worked to a cutting-edge at one end only ; 
sometimes this latter is oblique and considerably longer than the 
opposite extremity (fig. 3). Another specimen has the cutting-edge 
The figures 1, 2, 3 and 4 are of what are generally knowu as rough-hewn 
celts : it is. however, very probable that these Massingham specimens were 
really intended for use as mining tools. 
Fig. 4. Bough-hewn celt with 
circular cutting-edge at one end : 
towards the other end it has re- 
ceived lateral trimming, so that it 
could be hafted with a hazel or 
willow twig, after the manner of 
an adze. 
Fig. 3. Bough-hewn celt with 
cutting-edge at one end only. 
