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Rh weapon, being used both in the hand and also as a missile.

Another class of stone hatchets are those which are pierced for the handle. From the nature of flint these were scarcely ever made of that material. There are, however, in Copenhagen, two such hatchets, in which advantage has been ingeniously taken of a natural hole in the flint. In many kinds of hard stone, however, it is quite possible to drill a hole by means of a cylinder of bone or horn, with a little sand and water; yet it is very doubtful whether this class of implements truly belong to the Stone Age. The pierced axes are generally found in graves of the Bronze Period, and it is most probable that this mode of attaching the handle was used very rarely, if at all, until the discovery of metal had rendered the process more easy than could have been the case previously.

The "scrapers" (figs. 112, 113) are oblong stones