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The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain (1872)

Evans, John, Sir, 1823-1908 · London : Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer · leaf 106

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longitudinally, found at Boging-arry, Old-deer, Aberdeenshire. It is of flint, 4| inches long, and 2 inches wide. Another form of adze, if such it be, remarkably flat on one face and narrow at the butt, is shown in Fig. 40. This specimen was found in S waff ham Fen, Cambridge, and is in my own… … Fiff. 39.— Gantuii. Fig. 40.— Swaffliam Fen. sides are very minutely chipped along the angles, and there seems some possibility of the instrument having been used as a rimer or boring tool. The celts of other materials than flint, and ground only at the edge, are of rarer occurrence than those in…

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