. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. Fig. 6.—Fluke— 7.—Fhike—Pressigny. vention of a set or punch. No doubt the face of the flint at thetime of the blow being struck was supported on some elastic few flints which bear marks of having been used as hammer-stones are found at Pressigny. I have hitherto been treating of the production of flint flakesfor various purposes. In such cases the flakes are everything, andthe resulting core, or nucleus, mere refuse. In the manufacture ofcelts, or hatchets, the reverse is the case : the flakes are the
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. Fig. 6.—Fluke— 7.—Fhike—Pressigny. vention of a set or punch. No doubt the face of the flint at thetime of the blow being struck was supported on some elastic few flints which bear marks of having been used as hammer-stones are found at Pressigny. I have hitherto been treating of the production of flint flakesfor various purposes. In such cases the flakes are everything, andthe resulting core, or nucleus, mere refuse. In the manufacture ofcelts, or hatchets, the reverse is the case : the flakes are the refuse(though, of course, they might occasionally be utilized), and theresulting block is the main object sought. To produce this, how-ever, much the same process appears to have been adopted, at all ROUGH-HEWING STONE-HATCHETS. 29 events wliere flint was the material employed. The hatchetsseem to have been rough hewn by detaching a succession of flakes,chips, or splinters from a block of flint by means of a hammer-stone, and these rough-hewn implements were subsequentlyworked into a more f
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