. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. angles are muchwater-worn. The original of Fig. 421 isin the Blackmore Museum,and is of dark brown lustrousflint, almost equally convexon both iaces, and of veryregular elliptical form. Inmost cases the outline ap-proximates more to that ofFig. 467. These thin flattenedoval and almond-shaped, orovate, implements seem, asMr. Prigg has pointed out, topredominate at of oval form are especi-ally abundant at Warren Hill. Many of ruder character,however, also occur, one ofwhich, in my own collection,is shown i
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. angles are muchwater-worn. The original of Fig. 421 isin the Blackmore Museum,and is of dark brown lustrousflint, almost equally convexon both iaces, and of veryregular elliptical form. Inmost cases the outline ap-proximates more to that ofFig. 467. These thin flattenedoval and almond-shaped, orovate, implements seem, asMr. Prigg has pointed out, topredominate at of oval form are especi-ally abundant at Warren Hill. Many of ruder character,however, also occur, one ofwhich, in my own collection,is shown in Fig. 422. Itapproaches more nearly inform to some of the roughlychipped instruments of theSurface Period, such as , than do most of the im-plements from the River Drift. One of the finest specimenshitherto found in this countryis that shown in Fig. 423,from the original in the Black-more Museum. It is of darkochreous flint, with the sur-H& face considerably decomposed, and the angles but little the same collection is an-other specimen, in form like. Fip. 4S2.—Ickltogbam. that from Thetford, Fig. 4l7, but (J inches long and 4^ inches wide. ICKLINGHAM. 491 Besides the more finished implements, a few flakes occur in the Ick-lingham gravels. Some of these have been chipped all round the peri-phery by blows administered on the flat face, thus producing a bevellededge. One such, from Warren Hill, in my own collection, somewhat
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