. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. ed in this country, unless it mayhave been as drills or boring tools, some of whichare of very diminutive size. Such small objects Fig-189.—weaverthorpe. \are so liable to escape observation, that though they may exist inconsiderable numbers, they are but rarely found on the surface ofthe ground. Numerous flakes, however, quite as minute, have beenfound among the refuse left by the cave-dwellers of the Reindeer Periodof the South of France, and their edges show evident signs of flint barbs of the bone harpoon-he
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. ed in this country, unless it mayhave been as drills or boring tools, some of whichare of very diminutive size. Such small objects Fig-189.—weaverthorpe. \are so liable to escape observation, that though they may exist inconsiderable numbers, they are but rarely found on the surface ofthe ground. Numerous flakes, however, quite as minute, have beenfound among the refuse left by the cave-dwellers of the Reindeer Periodof the South of France, and their edges show evident signs of flint barbs of the bone harpoon-heads occasionally found in Scaniaare also made from extremely small flakes. Among the Australians! we find very minute splinters of flint andquartz secured to wooden handles by black boy gum, and formingthe teeth of rude saws and the barbs of javelins. Some remarkably smallflakes have also been found in the diamond diggings of South Africa, * Proc. Soc. Ant., 2nd S., vol. iii. p. 38. Proc. As. Soc. Peng., 1867, p. 137. -t Wood, Nat. Hist, of Man, vol. ii. pp. 36— 250 FLIXT FLAKES, CORES, ETC. [CHAP. XII. in company with fragments of ostrich egg-shell, such as with the aid oithe flakes might have been converted into the small perforated discsstill worn as ornaments by the Bushmen. There are but few published notices of the discovery of English coresof flint, though they are to be found in numbers over a considerabletract of country, especially where flint abounds. I have recorded their finding at Redhill,* near Reigate, and at LittleSolsbury Hill,+ near Bath. I have also numerous specimens fromGloucestershire, Sussex, Bedfordshire, Suffolk, and Yorkshire. Inseveral instances two series of flakes have been struck off, the one setat right angles to the other. More rarely the flakes Lave been obtainedfrom both ends of the block. A core from the Fens J is in the Museum of the Cambridge Anti-quarian Society, and several were found, with other worked flints, in thechambered lon
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