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- a small axe-like type of stone implement usually held in the hand used for working wooden materials
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A thin, ungrooved axe with a sharp edge used for cutting or chopping. Probably hafted into a wooden handle.
- An axe, celts were generally manufactured of flaked stone (chert or fine-grained igneous rock), ground stone (usually tough metamorphic rocks, such as serpentine), or even large shells. Celts usually have a single bit. Rather than use them to fell trees, trees were frequently ringed, which destroyed the living tissue of the trunk causing the plant to die.
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