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TRIMMED FLAKES, KNIVES, ETC.
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where that process has been used, it has been for the purpose of removing, not of sharpening the edge. In the case of the next examples which I am about to describe, one or both edges, and in some the whole of both faces, have been ground.
I have already mentioned instances of untrimmed flakes of flint having been ground on the edge, but knives of a similar character made from carefully chipped blades also occur, though so far as I have at present observed, principally in Scotland.
Fig. 252.—Argyllshire. 11 | Fig. 253.—Glen Urquhart. 1 |
One of these, carefully worked on both faces, and with one edge sharpened by grinding, was found at Strachur,[1] Argyllshire, and is shown full size in Fig. 252. Another, 212 inches long and 78 inch broad, with less grinding on the surface, was found at Cromar, Aberdeenshire. A third, of almost the same size, with the edge nearly straight and the back curved, and with neatly chipped faces but little ground, was found in a chambered cairn at Camster,[2] Caithness. A nodule of iron ore was found with it, but whether this was for fire-producing purposes is not apparent. A fragment of another knife of the same kind was found, in 1865, by Messrs. Anderson and Shearer in a cairn at Ormiegill Ulbster, Caithness; and among the numerous articles of flint found at Urquhart,[3] Elgin, is a very perfect knife of this kind, which is shown in Fig. 253. All five specimens are in the National Museum at