I have two flat celts, both said to have been found near Falkland, Fifeshire, one of which (6¾ inches) has had grooves about half an inch apart worked in the faces parallel to the sides, so as to form very pointed chevrons down the centre of the blade. The other (5 inches long) has had broad shallow dents about ½ inch long and ⅛ inch apart made in its faces, so as to form a herring-bone pattern.
The doubly tapering celt shown in Fig. 22 is also said to have been found near Falkland. Below the ridge the face has been ornamented with parallel belts of short, narrow indentations arranged longitudinally for about half the length of the lower face, but nearer the edge transversely. The sides are worked into three longitudinal facets.
Fig. 22.—Falkland. ½——————Fig. 23.—Greenlees. ½
Of Scottish flanged celts resembling Fig. 9, the following may be mentioned. One found in Peeblesshire[230] (5⅜ inches long, with a circular depression on one face); one from Longman,[231] Macduff, Banffshire (3¾ inches long).
Another of the same class, having a round hole at the upper part of the blade, is said to have been found in Scotland, and is engraved by Gordon.[232]
A celt with but slightly raised flanges and peculiar ornamentation is shown in Fig. 23. It was found at Greenlees,[233] near Spottiswoode, Berwickshire, and is in the collection of Lady John Scott. There is a faintly marked stop-ridge, above which the blade has been ornamented by thickly set parallel hammer or punch marks. The sides are fluted in a cable pattern. Parallel to the cutting edge are three slight fluted hollows, and on the blade above are segments of concentric hollows of the same kind, forming what heralds would term “flanches” on the blade. Whether in this ornament we are to see a representation of the “flanches” of the winged palstave like Fig. 85, such as is so common on socketed celts, or whether it is of independent origin, I will not attempt to determine.
Fig. 24.—Perth. ½——————Fig. 25.—Applegarth. ½