| Fig. 190. Plymstock. ⅔ | Fig. 191. Heathery Burn. ½ | Fig. 192. Glenluce. ½ |
A long chisel, formed from a plain square bar drawn to an edge, was found by Dr. Schliemann[569] in his excavations at Hissarlik.
Bronze chisels of the same form were also in use among the ancient Egyptians.
A smaller chisel, conical at the butt end and possibly intended for insertion into a handle, is shown in Fig. 191. The original is in the collection of Canon Greenwell, F.R.S., and was found with numerous other bronze antiquities in the Heathery Burn Cave, Durham, already so often mentioned. One rather larger, about 3 inches long and 1/5 inch broad, probably found in one of the barrows at Lake[570] or Durnford, is in the collection of the Rev. E. Duke, of Lake House, near Salisbury. It may possibly have been a large awl.
An Aztec[571] chisel of nearly the same form as Fig. 191, and about 4½ inches long, contains 97·87 copper and 2·13 of tin. Another from Lima contains 94 copper and 6 of tin.
The small bronze chisel from Scotland, shown in Fig. 192, exhibits a somewhat different type; the blade tapering evenly away from the edge. The point which was intended to go into the handle appears to have been “drawn down” a little by hammering, which has produced slight flanges at the sides. The edge has also been hammered. The original was kindly lent me by the Rev. George Wilson, of Glenluce, Wigtonshire, and was found, with a conical button and a flat plate of cannel-coal or jet, on the Sandhills of Low Torrs, near Glenluce. Numerous arrow-heads and flakes of flint have also been found among the sands at the same place.
A flat chisel (4½ inches) like Fig. 192, but rather broader at the edge, which is somewhat oblique, was found with two flat sickles on Sparkford Hill,[572] Somersetshire.
There were some small chisels of this class in the Larnaud hoard[573] (Jura).
Others have been found in the Swiss Lake-dwellings.[574]
Two shorter edged tools, found at Ebnall,[575] Salop, which have been described as chisels or hammers, seem rather to have been punches, and will be mentioned subsequently.