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Hatch′et.

（Carpentry.) A one-handed chopping-tool.

Hatchets of the stone age have been found with eyes for the reception of the helve. No such perforation is found in any bronze axe or hatchet of the immense period during which the cutting tools were formed of this metal. Bronze was always cast, and it seems wonderful that no one thought of casting it with an eye. Natural holes in stones were utilized for eyes; two flint hatchets in the museum of Copenhagen are examples.

The early history of our race is written in the tools of stone, bone, and bronze. A few leaves from the chapters to be found in all our museums are transferred to these pages.

a is a copper celt from Waterford, Ireland, resembling in shape the earlier stone tools, such as axes, adzes, chisels, hoes, for the chase, war, carpentry, and agriculture.

b is a winged celt from Ireland, c a socketed celt from the same country.

d e f show the modes in which the celts a b c were stocked.

Celts and hatchets.

These celts vary in size from an inch to a foot in length. g is a stone celt.

h is a celt-mold from Ireland.

i is a decorated bronze celt from Ireland.

k l m are Danish celts of bronze.

n is a stone axe from Ireland.

o, a stone hatchet found in county Monaghan, Ireland, yet mounted in a pine handle 13 1/2 inches long. Almost none of these weapons are found with holes for the handles. See axe.

p is an ancient stone hatchet found at the streamtin works, Morbihan.

q is a bronze hatchet from Morbihan.

r is the Roman securis. It had a single edge, or a blade and poll, as represented in the figure. When it had a blade on each side of the haft it was known as bi-pennis. See double-bitted axe.

s is a shingling hatchet. [1075]

1877.

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