Mouldings of various kinds occur on Danish and German axe-hammers of the Bronze Age,[691] but this form of small axe with a rounded butt is of rare occurrence. The longitudinal line in relief which occurs on the sides of some German battle-axes[692] has been regarded as an imitation of the mark left on bronze axes by the junction of the two halves of the mould. The small axe-heads from Germany[693] are wider at the butt, and more like Figs. 118 and 120 in outline. [Illustration: Fig. 129.—Crichie, Aberdeenshire.] The beautiful battle-axe, formed of fine-grained mica schist, found placed on burnt bones in a “Druidical” circle at Crichie, near Inverurie, Aberdeenshire,[694] and presented by the Earl of Kintore to the National Museum at Edinburgh, has deeply-incised lines round the margins of the hollow sides at the mouth of the shaft-hole. This weapon is 4 inches in length, and is considerably sharper at the broader end than at the other, though the edge is well rounded. For the loan of Fig. 129 I am indebted to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. In general character this specimen approximates to a somewhat rare Irish form, shortly to be mentioned, of which I possess a |198| specimen. The battle-axe from the barrow at Selwood, Fig. 140, is also slightly ornamented by lines on the sides, and that from Skelton Moors, Fig. 139, is fluted. Two axe-hammers of granite and greenstone (4 1∕2 and 5 inches) of much the same type as Fig. 129, but more elongated, so as in form to resemble Fig. 136, were found near Ardrossan,[695] Ayrshire. An unfinished axe-head of the same kind was found at Middleton,[696] Stevenston, Ayrshire. An axe-head of porphyritic greenstone (7 3∕4 inches long), from Stainton Dale, near Scarborough,[697] is said to resemble in form an Irish axe-head engraved in the _Ulster Journal of Archæology_.[698] If so, the sides through which the hole is bored were hollow, as in Fig. 129, and there was also a moulding round them. This Irish axe-head is formed of a kind of pale green hone-stone, and is now in the British Museum. Instead of incised lines there are raised flanges on each face, bordering the concave side in which is the shaft-hole. The length is 5 1∕4 inches, and the butt-end is half an oval, just flattened at the end. It was found in the river Bann.