Coalville Times | 1903-10-23 | Page 4 | Two-Handled Stone Sledges

Two-Handled Stone Sledges. Thirteen hundred stono etedge-hnm-mora havo been taken nut of tunnels mado by prehistoric men In the Iron mines at l-esllo, Arts.. They aro made of hlafk hetnnllto and have no other finish than a groove about the middle of each, showing whero formerly they wero bound by the withes to wooden handles. Oreenstone and Jasper used by the aborigines for war axes were not hard onougli to chip away tha hematite and exKise tho pockets of red oxide of iron which the savage used as a paint. The form of some ol these hammers ahowa that they wero fitted with two handles, ao that tlu operator could hold one In each hand