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The large disk-shaped pebble is of purple sandstone and was found in 
heap A. It bears transverse hacks nearly all the way around the edge, 
as if used to pound across the sharp edge of something. If it were pitted 
in the middle of both sides and the edge were bruised rather than trans- 
versely hacked it would resemble the typical pitted hammerstone. 
A broken end of a pebble about 3 inches long, found in heap M, 
has been battered on one edge and two sides as if from use as a small 
hammer or from being pounded upon. 
The pestle-shaped hammer-pebble made of hornblende granite, found 
on heap C and mentioned on page 8 (Plate XIV, figure 7), is somewhat 
shaped by pecking and rubbing. One end is larger than the other, and both 
are battered in two bulging facets running the width of the end, apparently 
from use as a hammer. 
A celt made of hornblende granite (Plate XIV, figure 8) has a pit in 
each side about as near the head as the side edges. The edge is fractured 
and much battered, as if from use as a hammer. 
One specimen, apparently the head end of a celt, described on page 48, 
has one end battered and fractured from use in pounding. Red paint 
on a battered spot on each side suggests that it was used as a hammer 
or in place of a pestle in crushing colouring matter. 
The other three specimens may be notched hammers. The first 
(Plate XIV, figure 9) is comparable with the notched celt on Plate XIII, 
figure 3. It is a flattish, porphyrite pebble, about 3 inches long, 1| inches 
wide, 1 inch thick, and oval in cross-section, with a large notch in both 
side-edges made by pecking. The ends have been much battered, appar- 
ently by use. The other two specimens were found in heap D. One of 
these, consisting of an oblong piece of metargillite, perhaps part of an un- 
finished celt, broken at both ends, is crudely chipped into shape on both 
sides, with the higher parts of one of the sides smoothed, and has a wide, 
deep notch on one edge made by battering. Marks of battering can also 
be seen on the edge at each end of the notch. The broken ends are not 
battered. The other specimen looks like a fragment of the upper end of 
a celt, made of porphyrite. Roth edges are notched and the top is 
battered. These two specimens may be fragments of notched or grooved 
axes, but axes of that kind are so rarely found in the region that they are 
more probably hammers or parts of broken, notched celts similar to that 
shown on Plate XIII, figure 3. 
Grooved hammer or club heads are very rare in Nova Scotia. Piers 
(a, page 114) has one, dug up at Dartmouth, that is an egg-shaped quartzite 
pebble 3| inches long, encircled with a pecked groove. He reports another 
in the Des Brisay collection in the Provincial Museum, Halifax. These 
may have been used as weapons. Piers (a, page 114) states that the 
Micmacs have a tradition that such clubs had magical properties, and 
when thrown in warfare could be made to strike an enemy, even behind 
a shelter. There is a maul made of stone from Nova Scotia in the Peabody 
Museum of Harvard University. 
Whetstones. Grinding stones or whetstones of several kinds were 
found. These include five large grinders (Plate XV, figure 1), rubbed 
pebbles (figure 3), small rubbed fragments of stone, and three plough 
grinders (figure 2). Three of the whetstones and one plough grinder 
