. The Archaeological journal. FORD ABBEY. -FORD ABBEY. The preservation of these inscriptions is a matter ofgreat importance, and I fear but little recognised. Yearby year cur old bells pass away, and witli them, some-times irrecoverably, important historical and archaso- logical 8.—POED ABBEY. ON THE EVIDENCE BEARING UPON THE EARLYHISTORY OF :\IAN WHICH IS DERIVED FROM THEFORM, CONDITION OF SURFACE, AND MODE OFOCCURRENCE OF DRESSED FLINTS.^ By T. McKENNY HUGHES, , , The enquiry into the early history of man has of latereceived great impulse. This is partly due to t


. The Archaeological journal. FORD ABBEY. -FORD ABBEY. The preservation of these inscriptions is a matter ofgreat importance, and I fear but little recognised. Yearby year cur old bells pass away, and witli them, some-times irrecoverably, important historical and archaso- logical 8.—POED ABBEY. ON THE EVIDENCE BEARING UPON THE EARLYHISTORY OF :\IAN WHICH IS DERIVED FROM THEFORM, CONDITION OF SURFACE, AND MODE OFOCCURRENCE OF DRESSED FLINTS.^ By T. McKENNY HUGHES, , , The enquiry into the early history of man has of latereceived great impulse. This is partly due to the increas-ino- number of persons interested in the question, andpartly to the wide range of modern research which hasbrought together evidence from many a distant regionand has applied many new methods of investigation;but it is also largely due to the recent advocacy of newtheories in respect of the age of man by leaders of sciencewhose opinions are always deservedly received withrespect even when they oiler only a tentative explana-tion of phenomena in regard to which we cannot feelthat we have sufficient evidence before us. We must always bear in mind that there was strongdisinclination to accept the views of those who firststated that they had found traces of man in rivergrav


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