. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. rvedin the Christy Collection, § and shown in Fig. 194—each flake isof cherty flint, and has been artificially shaped. Occasionally thereare a few projecting ribs or runners of iron along part of themachine, but in most instances the whole of the armature is ofstone. As each trilho is provided with some hundreds of chippedstones, we can readily understand what a number of rough flakesmight be left in the soil at places where they were long in use, inaddition to the flakes and splinters which for centuries have beenused f
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. rvedin the Christy Collection, § and shown in Fig. 194—each flake isof cherty flint, and has been artificially shaped. Occasionally thereare a few projecting ribs or runners of iron along part of themachine, but in most instances the whole of the armature is ofstone. As each trilho is provided with some hundreds of chippedstones, we can readily understand what a number of rough flakesmight be left in the soil at places where they were long in use, inaddition to the flakes and splinters which for centuries have beenused for striking a light. Flakes and splinters of silicious stone, whether flint, jasper, * Isaiah, chap. xli. ver. 15. f De Re Rust., lib. i. cap. 52. % Smiths Diet, of Gk. and Rom. Ant., Tribulum. Wilkinsons * , vol. ii. p. 190; iv. 94.§ For the use of this cut I am indebted to Mr. A. W. Franks, THE ROMAN TttlMJLUM. 257 chert, iron-stone, quartzite, or obsidian, are to be found inalmost all known countries, and belong to all ages. They are, in. •$ecc& Fi . A»4.—Tribuluin from Ale^u. fact, the most catholic of all stone implements, and have been inuse semper, ubique, et ab omnibus. Whether we look in our18 258 FLINT FLAKES, COKES, ETC. [CHAP. XII. old river-gravels of the age of the mammoth, in our old cave-deposits, our ancient encampments, or our modern gun-flint manu-factories, there is the inevitable flake. And it is almost universallythe same in other countries—in Greenland or South Africa, onthe field of Marathon or in the backwoods of Australia, amongthe sands of Arabia * or on the plains of America,—wherever suchflakes and splinters are sought for, they are almost sure to be found,either in use among the savage occupants of the country at thepresent day, or among civilized nations, left in the soil as memo-rials of their more or less remote barbarian ancestors. Flint flakes are found in great abundance in Ireland, especially inUlster, w
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