Journal of Proceedings. xv
This implement is an unusually beautiful, symmetrical, and well-made
example of a somewhat uncommon form. It is far too light and delicate
to have been used as a hatchet, axe, or adze, and it may quite possibly
have never been intended for mounting in a wooden handle at all. It is
probably a stone chisel, and was designed for hand use ; its form is such
Fig. 1.—Chipped and partly polished celt found at Enfield.
that it can be readily grasped in the hand, as one holds the wooden handle
of a chisel or gouge. It is remarkable not only for its extremely neat and
beautiful workmanship, but for the geometrical precision of its form and
its incurved sides, the belly of the implement being less in width than its
smaller end. The broad cutting edge shows but little evidence of use.
In Dr. John Evans' 'Ancient Stone Implements of Great Britain,' p. 67,