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sharp edge; the opposite end is blunt, and must have been used as a hammer; in the middle of each side may be Image missingNo 11.—Battle-axe of Grey Diorite. (Size 1:4 Depth, about 14 m.) seen a shallow groove, which proves that the operation of drilling a hole through it had been commenced, but was abandoned. A very similar stone battle-axe, in which the boring was commenced but abandoned, was found in the terramare of the Stone age near Mantua, and is preserved in the Museo Nazionale in the Collegio Romano at Rome. Another stone battle-axe of a similar shape, but in which the perforation is completed, was found in Denmark.^[1]

As stone hammers and axes, in which the operation of drilling a hole on each side has been begun, are of very frequent occurrence, Dr. Dörpfeld suggests to me that it may not have been intended to perforate the instruments, as a wooden handle may easily have been fastened to them by some sort of crotchet.

There were also found in the débris of the first settlement numerous very rude stone-hammers, like that represented in Ilios, p. 237, No. 83. Some similar rude stone hammers, found in Chaldæa, are preserved in the museum of the Louvre; others, found in the terramare of the Emilia, are in the Museums of Reggio and Parma. I may also mention the rudely-cut, nearly globular, stone instruments, like Nos. So and 81, p. 236, in Ilios, which occur by hundreds in all the four lower prehistoric cities of Troy. Besides the localities mentioned on pp. 236, 237, 442, in Ilios, these rude implements, which are usually called corn-bruisers, are also very frequent in the Italian terramare, and many of them may be seen in the Museums