A barrel-shaped hammer (3 3∕4 inches) was found on the hill of Ashogall,[788] Turriff, Aberdeenshire, and a rude triangular hammer on the Gallow Hill of Turriff.
[Illustration: Fig. 151.—Heslerton Wold. 1∕2]
A smaller hammer-head, curiously like those from Farney and Tullamore, both in form and material, was found with a small “food vessel” accompanying an interment near Doune,[789] Perthshire. It is 2 5∕8 inches long, with a parallel shaft-hole 5∕8 inch in diameter.
Another, of small-grained black porphyry, neatly polished, and about 3 1∕4 inches long, similar in outline to Fig. 150, but of oval section, and little more than an inch in thickness, was dredged up in the Tidal Basin, at Montrose, and is preserved in the local museum.
A cylindrical hammer of grey granite (2 3∕4 inches) only partially bored from both faces, was found in the parish of Glammis,[790] Forfarshire. Mr. J. W. Cursiter, of Kirkwall, has a beautiful specimen formed of striped gneiss (3 1∕4 inches) with well-rounded ends, and the sides much curved inwards. It was found at Whiteness, Shetland. Another of his hammers (2 3∕4 inches) with a parallel hole (7∕8 inch) has the sides straight and is of oval section. It is of beautifully mottled gneiss.
Another variety, allied to the last, has an egg-shaped instead of a quasi-conical form; the shaft-hole being towards the small end of the egg. The specimen here engraved, Fig. 152, is apparently of serpentine, and was found at Hallgaard Farm, near Birdoswald, Cumberland. It is in the Greenwell Collection.
I have a smaller but nearly similar specimen in greenstone, from |225| the neighbourhood of Flamborough, Yorkshire. The hole in this is more bell-mouthed than in the other specimen, and a little nearer the centre of the stone.
One of nearly similar form, but rather flatter on one face, 3 1∕4 inches long, found in Newport, Lincoln, is engraved in the _Archæological Journal_.[791]
Another in size and shape, much like Fig. 152, was dug up at Llanrhaiadr-yn-Mochnant, Montgomeryshire.[792] Another in the British Museum came from the neighbourhood of Keswick.
An egg-shaped hammer, 3 inches long, of mica schist, and found in the Isle of Arran,[793] is in the National Museum at Edinburgh. The shaft-hole is in the centre.