. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. rompton Wold. In some of these instruments the point is sharp instead of beingrounded. One of them, in the collection of the Rev. W. Greenwell,, found in a barrow on Potter Brompton Wold, is shown inFig. 243. I have a more triangular form of implement, of the same kind,3f inches long, showing the crust of the flint at the base, and foundnear Icklingham, Suffolk. Another from the same locality is of thesame form as the figure. Instruments of the same character as these have been discovered bythe late Mr. Bateman in
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. rompton Wold. In some of these instruments the point is sharp instead of beingrounded. One of them, in the collection of the Rev. W. Greenwell,, found in a barrow on Potter Brompton Wold, is shown inFig. 243. I have a more triangular form of implement, of the same kind,3f inches long, showing the crust of the flint at the base, and foundnear Icklingham, Suffolk. Another from the same locality is of thesame form as the figure. Instruments of the same character as these have been discovered bythe late Mr. Bateman in many of the Derbyshire barrows. Whatappears to be one of the same kind was found with a flake and burntbones in an urn at Broughton, Lincolnshire, and is engraved in theArcliceological It may, however, have been convex on bothfaces. A fragment of another was found at Dorchester Dykes, J Oxford-shire, by Col. A. Lane Fox. * Cran Bri<\. vol. ii. pi. 58, p. 2. t Vol. viii. 344, % Journ. Ethnol. Soc, vol. ii. p. 414. 298 TRIMMED FLAKES, KNIVES, ETC. [CHAP. />} „--a The sharp-edged instruments of the forms last described seem to havebeen intended for use as cutting, or occasionally scraping tools, and maynot improperly be termed knives, as has been proposed by Mr. Greenwell.*Even the last, though sharply pointed, cannot with certainty beregarded as a spear-head. To regarding the other form, Fig. 242, assuch, Mr. Greenwell objects that the people who fashioned the arrow-heads so beautifully, if they fabricated a spear-head in flint, would nothave made one side straight, the other curved, and carefully rounded itoff at the sharper end. Sometimes the secondary working extends over part of both faces ofthe flake, the central ridge of which is still Rev. W. Greenwell, , found a fine instrumentof this kind, 3£ inches long and 1 inch broad, made froma ridged flake, with neat secondary chipping along bothsides, and on both faces, with a burnt bo
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