. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. her instruments of this classwhich I am now about to describe. Fig. 245 represents an implement of dark grey,almost unweathered flint, in the collection of the Greenwell, , and found in a barrow withburnt bones at Ford, Northumberland. It has beenmade from an external flake, subsequently brought intoshape by working on both faces. Judging from itsform only, it would appear to have been a lance-head ;but there are some signs of wear of the edge at thebutt-end, which seem hardly compatible with thisassumption,
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. her instruments of this classwhich I am now about to describe. Fig. 245 represents an implement of dark grey,almost unweathered flint, in the collection of the Greenwell, , and found in a barrow withburnt bones at Ford, Northumberland. It has beenmade from an external flake, subsequently brought intoshape by working on both faces. Judging from itsform only, it would appear to have been a lance-head ;but there are some signs of wear of the edge at thebutt-end, which seem hardly compatible with thisassumption, unless, indeed, like the natives of Tierradel Fuego,** who are said to make use of theirarrow-heads for cutting purposes, its owner used it * Arch. Journ., vol. xxii. p. 243. + Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., vol. vii. p. 102. X Mem. Ace. R. delle Sc. di Torino, xxvi. tav. v. 1. § Op. cit., tav. viii. 20. [| Le Hon, LHomme Foss., 2nd ed., p. 184. IT De Gongora, Ant. Preh. de And., p. 78, fig. 92. ** Nilsson, Stone Age, p. 44, See Col. A. Lane Fox, Prim. Warfare, p.
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