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Rh colour, was found with a bronze dagger and a stone axe-hammer in an urn at Broughton in Craven, in 1675.

Two perforated whetstones were found with a bronze dagger and pin in the Silk Hill Barrow, Wilts. Another, with the perforation in a sort of loop at the end, was found with two daggers and a crutched pin of bronze, associated with burnt bones in a barrow at Normanton. Whetstones, in some cases not perforated, have occurred in other Wiltshire barrows, associated with bronze daggers at Wilsford and Lake, and with flint daggers or spear-heads at Durrington. The smooth stone found with a flint dagger in a barrow near Stonehenge, may also possibly have been a whetstone. Two from barrows at Knowle, Dorset, and Camerton, Somerset, have been figured by Dr. Thurnam. Another of the same kind was found in a barrow at Tregaseal, St. Just, Cornwall, and two others with urns at Brane Common, in the same neighbourhood. Others not perforated are recorded from Cottenham, Cambs. One from Anglesea has been figured.

Two of greenish stone (chlorite?) one 2 inches long, perforated at the end, were found at Drewton, near North Cave, Yorkshire; and another of similar material, 2 inches long, was found near some "Picts' houses," Shapinsay, Orkney. Half of a whetstone was found with a bronze dagger and numerous flint flakes by Mr. Morgan in a barrow at Penhow, Monmouthshire; and a much-used whetstone was found in a barrow near Scarborough, but the form of neither is specified. Several, both pierced and otherwise, have been recorded from Scotland. One with the boring incomplete was found with a flint knife in a cist at Stenton, East Lothian, and another, perforated, with a thin bronze blade and an urn at Glenluce, Wigtownshire. It appears possible that some of the stones found in Scotland and perforated at one end, described by Wilson as flail-stones, may after all be merely whetstones. The perforated form is common in Ireland, and is usually found in connection with metal objects. I have a narrow hone of rag-stone, perforated at one end, which was found with a remarkable hoard of bronze objects, including moulds for socketed celts and for a gouge, in the Isle of Harty, Sheppey. An almost identical whetstone is in the Zurich Museum.

Whetstones, perforated at one end, have occurred in the Swiss Lake-dwellings. Most of those found in the ancient cemetery of Hallstatt, in the Salzkammergut, were perforated in the same manner, and in