. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. Fi . 429.—Relhill, Thetford | The finely wrought symmetrical specimens are rarer at Redhill thanat Santon Downham ; but here, as elsewhere in this district, implementsare occasionally found of what has been aptly termed the shoe-shapedtype, of which an example is shown in Fig. 429. The form is flat onone face, the other being brought to a central ridge rising towards the butt,which is usually rounded and obtusely truncated. In this specimen thegreater pari of the bult-end or heel of the shoe exhibits the original crustof
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. Fi . 429.—Relhill, Thetford | The finely wrought symmetrical specimens are rarer at Redhill thanat Santon Downham ; but here, as elsewhere in this district, implementsare occasionally found of what has been aptly termed the shoe-shapedtype, of which an example is shown in Fig. 429. The form is flat onone face, the other being brought to a central ridge rising towards the butt,which is usually rounded and obtusely truncated. In this specimen thegreater pari of the bult-end or heel of the shoe exhibits the original crustof the nodule of flint from which the implement was formed. The point,whw b Is usually brought to a semicircular sharp edge, has been broken in * 13G7, vol. xxiii. pp. 49, 53. REDHILL, THETFORD. 499. !l li| IS :V-a M old times either by use or by attrition in the gravel. Most of these shoe-shaped instruments have been formed from large spalls of flint, so thatthe flat face has been the resultof a single blow, though occa-sionally retouched by subse-quent chipping. The implement shown inFig. 430 is of this character,but is, too thin, in proportionto its size, to represent thetypical shoe shape. It has beenformed from a large externalflake, the bulb of percussionbeing at the lower left-handcorner of the figure, but onthe opposite face to that flake has been trimmedinto shape by chipping alongthe edges on both faces, sothat not above half of theoriginal inner face remainsfree from secondary surface is, as usual, stainedof a rich ochreous brown. A considerable number offlint flakes of various sizesand shapes have been foundat Redhill, many of them Fig. , Thetford. showing signs of use and wear on their edges, and some being worked toa quadrant of a circ
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