The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London . convenient to fashion those intermediatevarieties which are often met with. There are one or two slight peculiarities in these implements,whether French or English, which seem to deserve notice, as theymay tend to explain the uses to which they were put. Thus inseveral of those of the pointed form the point is seen to be slightlyrecurved; and in many of them we find that a flat space or suifacehas been left or formed, exactly adapted to receive the thumb of theright hand, which, if it had been constantly pressed upon a sharp orrugged
The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London . convenient to fashion those intermediatevarieties which are often met with. There are one or two slight peculiarities in these implements,whether French or English, which seem to deserve notice, as theymay tend to explain the uses to which they were put. Thus inseveral of those of the pointed form the point is seen to be slightlyrecurved; and in many of them we find that a flat space or suifacehas been left or formed, exactly adapted to receive the thumb of theright hand, which, if it had been constantly pressed upon a sharp orrugged surface, would soon have become sore and inflamed. I havenever shared the opinion that these things were either weapons ofwar or of the chase; and the peculiarities alluded to (coupled withthe circumstance that the pointed end is almost always found to bebroken and blunted) tend to support the belief that they were usedas hand-spades or dibbles, perhaps for digging roots. 48 PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Fig. 3.—Flint Implement from FLOWER FLIXT IMPLEMENTS. Fig. 4.—Flint Implement from TJietford. 49
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