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the tools of the Eskimos or the handles of the bronze sickles of the Swiss Lake-dwellers. An Irish celt, 8 inches long, and now in the Blackmore Museum, has two notches on one side only, and more distinctly formed, "seemingly to receive the fingers and give a firmer hold when used in the hand without a haft."

Another peculiar instrument adapted for being held in the hand is shown in Fig. 83. It was found at Keystone, Huntingdonshire, and is now in the British Museum. It is made of greenstone, and in form resembles the sharp end of a celt with flat sides let into a spherical handle. Some hand-hatchets from Australia are of much the same character, but in their case the knob is distinct from the blade, and formed of hard xanthorrhæa gum.

Fig. 83.—Keystone.