A more highly finished form of the same implement is shown in Fig. 255. The original was found at Pick Rudge Farm,[1536] Overton, Wilts, in company with the large barbed arrow or javelin-head, Fig. 305, and both are now in the Blackmore Museum. Like Fig. 254, it is flatter on one face than the other; it is, however, polished all over as well as ground at the edges. These are rather sharper at the two ends than at the sides. Another specimen of the same form, and of almost |340| identically the same dimensions, was found at Pentrefoelas,[1537] Denbighshire. A third specimen, 3 1∕2 inches long and 2 1∕4 inches wide, was found at Lean Low, near Newhaven, Derbyshire, and is in the Bateman collection.[1538] In my own collection are two very fine and perfect specimens of this class of instrument, both from the neighbourhood of Cambridge. The larger of these is 4 1∕4 inches long, 2 3∕4 inches broad at one end, and 2 5∕8 inches at the other. The ends are ground to a regular sweep, and the sides are somewhat hollowed. It has been made from a very broad thin flake, and is ground over nearly the whole of the outer and over part of the inner face, and brought to a sharp edge all round. It was found in Burwell Fen. The smaller instrument has been even more highly finished in the same manner, every trace of the original chipping of the convex face having been removed by grinding. The edge is sharp all round, but the ends are more highly curved than in the larger instrument. It is 3 1∕4 inches long, 2 1∕8 inches broad at one end, and 1 7∕8 inches at the other, and was found in Quy Fen. In the Greenwell Collection is a portion of what appears to have been another of these instruments, ground on both faces and sharp at the edges, from Lakenheath. [Illustration: Fig. 256.—Kempston. 1∕2] I have the half of another, 2 inches wide, found near Bridlington, and one of the same character, but oval in outline, from the same place. The latter has lost one of its ends. Its original dimensions must have been about 3 inches in length by 1 7∕8 inches in extreme breadth, and 3∕16 inch in thickness. Both faces are coarsely ground, the striæ running crossways of the blade. The edges appear to have been sharpened on a finer stone. It has been supposed that these instruments were intended to serve for dressing[1539] the flesh side of skins, or for flaying-knives.[1540] Mr. Albert Way has called attention to the analogy they present to an unique bronze implement found at Ploucour,[1541] Brittany.