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108 5 inches long, slightly unsymmetrical in outline, owing to the cleavage of the stone. It is said to have been found near Brierlow, Buxton. The material is a green jade-like stone, but so fibrous in appearance as to resemble fibrolite.



Another, of "a fine granite stone, highly polished, 9 inches long, 4 broad at one end, tapering to the other, its thickness in the middle of an inch, and quite sharp at the edges all round," was found at Mains, near Dumfries, in 1779. It was discovered in blowing up some large stones, possibly those of a dolmen, and is now in the possession of Sir R. S. Riddell, Bart., of Strontian.

Several other specimens have been found in Scotland. A beautiful celt from Berwickshire is, through the kindness of the Society of