. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. ive powerof recognizing a worked flint. Our search was soon rewarded, forimmediately on descending into the lower part of the pit, wherethe shell-bearing beds were exposed, my son picked up the remark-ably well-formed implement shown in Fig. 453. It was not in * Ant of Man., pp. 101, 124. T C<nl. vol. v. p. 391, See nlso Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, 1869, vol. xxv. p. 95. I Quart. Journ. Geo/. $oc, L869, vol. xxv. p. 99. HIGHBURY, LONDON. 525 situ, but was lying in the bottom of the pit; and judging fromthe staining
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. ive powerof recognizing a worked flint. Our search was soon rewarded, forimmediately on descending into the lower part of the pit, wherethe shell-bearing beds were exposed, my son picked up the remark-ably well-formed implement shown in Fig. 453. It was not in * Ant of Man., pp. 101, 124. T C<nl. vol. v. p. 391, See nlso Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, 1869, vol. xxv. p. 95. I Quart. Journ. Geo/. $oc, L869, vol. xxv. p. 99. HIGHBURY, LONDON. 525 situ, but was lying in the bottom of the pit; and judging fromthe staining upon a portion of its surface, it appears to have beenderived from the brick-earth, rather than from the more shellybeds below. It is well adapted for being held in the hand as a sort of knife orchopper, having a thick rounded back formed of the natural crust ofthe nodule of flint from which it was made. One face of it has beenformed by a single blow, and its surface is that of a portion of a some-what irregular cone, at the apex of which the blow was struck by wThich. Fig. 453.—Highbury New Park. \ it was produced. The other face, as will be seen by the figure, has beenfashioned by first roughly chipping the implement to a curved edge byblows administered on the flatter face, and then neatly trimming thisedge to a regular sweep by secondary chipping. The ends have alsobeen trimmed into shape. At the upper end, as shown in the figure, asmall piece has been broken off, but otherwise the edge is character it is identical with the implement from the Santon Downhamgravel, Fig. 437, and closely resembles some of the large trimmed flakesfrom High Lodge, near Mildenhall, and the choppers from the cave ofLe Moustier. The surface of the flint is stained ochreous in places, andpresents much the same appearance as do some of the implements fromthe brick-earth at Hoxne. No other specimens have as yet been foundat Highbury. 526 RIVER-DRIFT IMPLEMENTS. [CHAP. XXIII. Nearly te
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