. Archæology and false antiquities. any object in worked flint, and all they could do was to polishan axe of schist, or to perforate a plaque of this material ; butit is very rare to find plaques and axes of this kind. One could CONTINENTAL FORGERIES 77 also sharpen a bone-point, but this would be easily myself noticed, on one occasion, such a point among theobjects brought to me by a gamin, and, on reproaching thelittle vender, he merely laughed and ran away in haste. So Mr, Koudriavtsev admits that forgery was practised,and if so, seeing that most of the objects in his owncollecti
. Archæology and false antiquities. any object in worked flint, and all they could do was to polishan axe of schist, or to perforate a plaque of this material ; butit is very rare to find plaques and axes of this kind. One could CONTINENTAL FORGERIES 77 also sharpen a bone-point, but this would be easily myself noticed, on one occasion, such a point among theobjects brought to me by a gamin, and, on reproaching thelittle vender, he merely laughed and ran away in haste. So Mr, Koudriavtsev admits that forgery was practised,and if so, seeing that most of the objects in his owncollection had been purchased from the peasants, theproblem of forgery cannot be altogether eliminated fromthe discussion. Among the Volosova relics, which have been paralleledwith the Breonio jflints and the Clyde idols and pen-dants, are the following : Two human-like figureschipped out of a flat piece of flint, showing a head, neck,and short extremities (Figs. 21 and 22). One humanfigure of this description was found by the author in an.
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