Fig. 268 represents a beautifully formed knife, with a curved blade tapering to a point, and found in draining at Fimber, Yorkshire. It is preserved in the collection of Messrs. Mortimer, of Driffield, who have kindly allowed me to engrave it. It is about 7 inches in length, formed of flint, which has now become ochreous in colour, and exhibits a portion of the natural crust at the butt-end. The blade is nearly equally convex on the two faces, but thickens out at the butt, which seems to have formed the handle, as the side edges which are elsewhere sharp are there slightly blunted. The faces present no signs of having been ground or polished.
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| Fig. 268.—Fimber. 12 | Fig. 269.—Yarmouth. 12 |
I have two or three fragments of similar knives also from the Yorkshire Wolds; and one almost perfect, but only 412 inches long, from Ganton Wold. In the Greenwell Collection is a fragment of one from Wetwang, and the point of another from Rudstone. I have one (5 inches) perfect except at the butt, found at North Stow, Bury St. Edmunds.
Fig. 269 represents a nearly similar knife, which has, however, been already described, though not figured, in the Archæological Journal[1] and in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries.[2] It was found on Corton Beach, midway between Yarmouth and Lowestoft, and belonged