The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain (1872)
Evans, John, Sir, 1823-1908 · London : Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer · leaf 180
r than to original design, that the gouge-like character of the implement is due. Most of the Danish gouges have a rectangular section at the middle of the blade, and the butt-end is usually truncated, and sometimes shows marks of having been hammered, so that these implements were pro- bably used… … Fig. 115.— Eastbourne. away charred surfaces without the aid of a mallet. Some small examples of this class show, however, pohshed markings as if from having been inserted in handles. Under the head of gouges I must comprise a few of those celt-hke implements already mentioned, which, without being…
Stone age -- Great Britain · Great Britain -- Antiquities
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