112 A SUPPOSED NEOLITHIC SETTLEMENT.
(g) Three hand hammers—one from the os sacrum of ox
(circumference 101/2 inches) ; two others from the distal tibiae
of the Bos longifrons. The surface is cut everywhere with a
pointed tool of flint. This faint tooling is difficult to describe or
to represent ; but the same kind of workmanship will be found
noticed in the description given of a Lake-dwelling discovered at
Ehenside Tarn in Cumberland, which was first reported and
described in an article by myself, and afterwards more fully
treated by Mr. R. D. Darbishire, F.G.S., in the Archaeologia, vol.
xliv., pp. 273, 292. The work seems done with a sharp-pointed
flint, and carefully chiselled over by even short cuts.
Wooden Implements.
These may have been numerous during the stone period, as,
for example, to supply the hafts for drilled horns, &c. ; but
Fig. 14. Bone handle Two thirds natural size.
owing to such relics being mixed up with leaves and branches,
the workmen would not readily discover or distinguish them
from the surrounding pieces of natural wood.
(a) An implement of maple (Fig. 15), measuring 4 feet 7
inches in length ; greatest width 21/4 inches, and narrowest width
11/2 inches ; of a thickness to suit the hand, sharpened to a spear-
point at one end, and rounded at the butt, with hand-grips for
use as a spear or more probably as a paddle. Only few of
similar implements have come into the collector's hands,
and from experience I can say that care must be taken
in drying and soaking such relics in glycerine, to save
them from warping and cracking, or even perishing alto-
gether. This process has been adopted with the imple-
ment now described, and the result is its almost perfect