[Illustration: Fig. 139.—Skelton Moors. 1∕2]
[Illustration: Fig. 140.—Selwood Barrow. 1∕2]
A longer and more slender form has also occasionally been found in tumuli. Sir R. Colt Hoare has given an engraving of a beautiful specimen from the Selwood Barrow,[756] near Stourton, which is here reproduced as Fig. 140. The axe is of syenite, 5 1∕2 inches long, and lay in a cist, in company with burnt bones and a small bronze dagger, which in the description is erroneously termed a lance-head. Parallel with each side, there appears to be a small groove worked on the face of the weapon. A very pretty example of the same form |212| accompanied an interment in a barrow at Snowshill,[757] Gloucestershire. With it were associated two bronze daggers and a bronze pin.
In the Christy Collection is a similar but larger specimen, 7 inches long, formed of dark greenstone. It also has the grooves along the margin of the faces, and has an oval flat face about 1 inch by 7∕8 inch at the hammer-end. The hole, which is 1 1∕8 inch full in diameter at one side, contracts rather suddenly to 1 inch at the other. This weapon was formerly in the Leverian Museum, and is said to have been found in a barrow near Stonehenge, which, from its similarity to Sir R. C. Hoare’s specimen, there seems no reason to doubt.
[Illustration: Fig. 140A.—Longniddry. 1∕2]
An axe-hammer of clay-stone porphyry, 4 3∕4 inches long, and in form the same as those last described—except that there appears to be more of a shoulder at the hammer-end—was found in a barrow at Winwick,[758] near Warrington, Lancashire. It was broken clean across the hole, and had been buried in an urn with burnt bones. With them was also a bronze dagger with a tang, and one rivet hole to secure it in the handle.
An axe-hammer of much the same proportions, but more square at the hammer-end, was discovered in a dolmen near Carnac,[759] in Brittany. A beautiful axe of the same character with ornamental grooves and |213| mouldings is in the Museum at Edinburgh, and is here, by favour of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, shown as Fig. 140A. The original is of diorite, and was dug up in 1800 at Longniddry,[760] East Lothian.
[Illustration: Fig. 141.—Upton Lovel. 1∕2]