Two of greenish stone (chlorite?) one 2 5∕8 inches long, perforated at the end, were found at Drewton,[1134] near North Cave, Yorkshire; and another of similar material, 2 inches long, was found near some “Picts’ houses,”[1135] Shapinsay, Orkney. Half of a whetstone was found with a bronze dagger and numerous flint flakes by Mr. Morgan in a barrow at Penhow,[1136] Monmouthshire; and a much-used whetstone was found in a barrow near Scarborough,[1137] but the form of neither is specified. Several, both pierced and otherwise, have been recorded from Scotland.[1138] One with the boring incomplete was found with a flint knife in a cist at Stenton,[1139] East Lothian, and another, perforated, with a thin bronze blade and an urn at Glenluce,[1140] Wigtownshire. It appears possible that some of the stones found in Scotland and perforated at one end, described by Wilson[1141] as flail-stones, may after all be merely whetstones. The perforated form is common in Ireland, and is usually found in connection with metal objects.[1142] I have a narrow hone of rag-stone, perforated at one end, which was found with a remarkable hoard of bronze objects, including moulds for socketed celts and for a gouge, in the Isle of Harty, Sheppey. An almost identical whetstone is in the Zurich Museum. Whetstones, perforated at one end, have occurred in the Swiss Lake-dwellings.[1143] Most of those found in the ancient cemetery of Hallstatt,[1144] in the Salzkammergut, were perforated in the same manner, and in |270| some cases provided with an iron loop for suspension. They are usually of sandstone, and not formed from slaty rocks. A whetstone, 5 1∕4 inches long, the two flat faces of which had evidently been used for sharpening flat blades, while in the centre of each is a deep groove, probably caused by sharpening pointed tools, such as awls or needles of bronze, was found at Ty Mawr, Anglesea, near a spot where a number of bronze celts, spear-heads, &c., had previously been dug up. It has been figured by the late Hon. W. O. Stanley,[1145] whose cut is here reproduced as Fig. 187. The ends of the stone are somewhat battered from its having been also used as a hammer. [Illustration: Fig. 187.—Ty Mawr.] The same explorer discovered in hut-circles in Holyhead Island[1146] other whetstones of the same character, in one instance with two principal grooves and minor scorings crossing each other at an acute angle, and in another with three parallel grooves in the face of the stone. There can be little doubt that these sharpening stones belong to a period when the use of metal for cutting and piercing instruments was fully established. * * * * *