In character these axes with expanded ends more nearly resemble some of the Scandinavian and North German types than do most of the other British forms. Broken stone axes expanding at the edge have been found on the site of Troy. In the Museum of the Leeds Philosophical Society is a double-edged axe-head of a larger and coarser kind, which, is said to have been found near Whitby. Its authenticity was strongly vouched for by the late Mr. Denny, but I fear that it is a modern fabrication. An implement of the same form, from Gerdauen, East Prussia, is |188| preserved in the Berlin Museum; and another of greenstone was found at Hallstatt.[662] A singular variety from the same spot has the edge at one end at right angles to that at the other. [Illustration: Fig. 120.—Llanmadock. 1∕2] A small sketch of a very remarkable curved blade, pointed at one end and with an axe-like edge at the other, is given in the _Journal of the Archæological Association_.[663] It is of greenstone, 11 inches long and 2 1∕2 inches across, and was found in Guernsey. By the kindness of the late Rev. W. C. Lukis, F.S.A., of Wath, I am enabled to give an engraving of the type in Fig. 121. A number of specimens have been found in the Channel Islands, to which the form seems peculiar. * * * * * The second class into which I proposed to divide these implements consists of adzes, or blades having the edge at right angles to the shaft-hole. Apart from a short notice by Mr. Monkman, I believe that attention was for the first time called in the former edition of this book, to the occurrence of this form in Britain. |189| * * * * * The specimen I have selected for engraving, as Fig. 122, gives a good idea of the typical character. It is of greenstone, with the shaft-hole tapering inwards from both faces, one of which is less convex than the other. It was found at Fireburn Mill, near Coldstream, Berwickshire, and is in the Greenwell Collection. In the same collection is another of similar character, but having the butt-end broken off and the edge more circular, found at Willerby Carr, in the East Riding of Yorkshire. [Illustration: Fig. 121.—Guernsey. 1∕2] I have a smaller specimen (4 3∕4 inches), of a hard micaceous grit, found at Allerston, in the North Riding; as also a remarkably fine and perfect adze of porphyritic greenstone (6 3∕8 inches), ground to a |190| rounded edge at the butt, instead of being truncated like Fig. 122. The shaft-hole, like that of all the others, tapers inwards from both faces, in this instance from 1 3∕8 inch to 7∕8 inch. This specimen was found at South Dalton, near Beverley. An adze or hoe of the same kind, found at Wellbury,[664] near Offley, Herts, is in the collection of Mr. W. Ransom, F.S.A. [Illustration: Fig. 122.—Fireburn Mill, Coldstream. 1∕2]