Other specimens made of greenstone have been found in the Fens, some of which are in the Museum of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. Some “stone” celts from Kate’s Bridge[344] and Digby Fen have been figured in Miller and Skertchly’s “Fenland.” One (7 inches) of greenstone, and apparently of this type, was found at Hartford,[345] Hunts, and is now in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. In the Newcastle Museum is a compact greenstone celt of this character (5 3∕4 inches) with the edge slightly oblique, found at Penrith Beacon, Cumberland. Some celts of the same general character have been found in Anglesea. Implements of this class are frequently more tapering at the butt than the one shown in the figure. I have several such from the Cambridge Fens, and have seen an example from Towcester. One of flint (4 inches), so much rounded at the edge as to be almost oval in outline, found near Mildenhall, is in the Christy Collection. One of greenstone (4 1∕4 inches) was found at Wormhill, Buxton, Derbyshire. Fig. 49, of dark-grey whin-stone, is of much the same character, but has an oblique cutting edge. The butt-end is ground to a blunted |105| curve. The original is in the Greenwell Collection, and was dug up in draining at Ponteland, Northumberland. Another, in the same collection, similar, but much rougher (6 inches) was found at Halton Chesters, in the same county. I have one of the same kind (6 5∕8 inches) found near Raby Castle, Durham. A flint hatchet of nearly the same form, 4 1∕2 inches long, was found at Kempston, near Bedford. The Earl of Ducie, F.R.S., has another of flint (5 inches) from Bembridge, Isle of Wight. A celt, from Andalusia, of this character, but with the edge straighter, has been figured.[346] [Illustration: Fig. 49.—Ponteland, Northumberland. 1∕2] [Illustration: Fig. 50.—Fridaythorpe, Yorkshire. 1∕2] The celt engraved in Fig. 50 is likewise in the Greenwell Collection, and was found at Fridaythorpe, in the East Riding of Yorkshire. It is formed of green hone-stone. Another, similar but thicker, and having the sides more convergent and the edge less oblique, was found at the same place and is in the same collection, in which also is the fragment of a larger implement of the same class from Amotherby, near Malton, Yorkshire. With these is another (4 3∕4 inches) which was found in a barrow with a burnt interment on Seamer Moor, Yorkshire. It is apparently of clay-slate which has become red by burning with the body. Messrs. Mortimer have one of this form in greenstone (5 3∕8 inches) found near Malton, and also one in flint (4 1∕8 inches) found near Fimber. |106|