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100 I have also a larger specimen, 9 inches long, from the same spot, and found, I believe, at the same time.

This form is of common occurrence in the Eastern Counties. I have specimens from Hilgay Fen, Norfolk (8 inches), and Botesdale (7 inches), Hepworth (6 inches), Undley Hall, near Lakenheath (5 inches), in Suffolk. Some of these are ground over almost the entire face. A fine specimen (10 inches) is in the Woodwardian Museum, at Cambridge. In the Fitch Collection is a fine series of them. One of these, 9 inches long, 3 inches broad, and 2 inches thick, weighing 3 lbs. 6 ozs., was found at Narborough, near Swaffham. Another (9 inches), weighing 3 lbs., was found near Ipswich. A third (8 inches) was discovered at Bolton, near Great Yarmouth. Others from 5 inches to 7 inches long, are from Beachamwell, Elsing, Grundisburgh, Aylsham, and Breccles, in the counties of Suffolk and Norfolk. That from the last-named locality has one face flatter than the other.

There are others in the Norwich Museum, including one from Blofield, 8 inches long.

There are numerous specimens of this type in the British Museum. One from Barton Bendish, Norfolk, is 7 inches long; another from Oxburgh, in the same county, 6 inches. Others, 6 inches and 5 inches long, are from Market Weston and Kesgrave, Suffolk. The former is semicircular at both ends.

Mr. A. C. Savin has a well-finished example (6 inches) from Trimingham, five miles south of Cromer.

The Rev. S. Banks, of Cottenham, had a fine specimen, of white flint, 8 inches long, found at Stow Heath, Suffolk.

Several celts of this form found in the Fen district are in the Museum of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. I have some from the same neighbourhood, of which two are unusually wide in proportion to their length, and in outline much resemble Fig. 48, though the edge is more semicircular. One of these is 7 inches long, 3 inches wide, and l inches thick; the other 5 inches long, 2 inches wide, and 1 inches thick.

I have seen a celt presenting a narrow variety of this form, which was found at Albury, near Bishop's Stortford. It is 6 inches long, and 1 inches wide, and polished all over.

The ordinary form, though apparently of most frequent occurrence in the East Anglian counties, is not by any means confined to that district. One, 8 inches long, the sides very slightly flattened; and three others, 6 inches and 5 inches long, with the sides more rounded, all found in the Thames, at London, are in the British Museum. I have one from the Thames, at Teddington (6 inches), and three, 5 to 6 inches long, found together in Temple Mills Lane, Stratford, Essex, in 1882. In the Greenwell Collection is one 7 inches long, found at Holme, on Spalding Moor, Yorkshire.

A flint celt of this form (6 inches), from Reigate, is in the British Museum, as well as another (6 inches), rather oblique at the edge, found in a barrow in Hampshire, engraved in the Archælogia.