. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. ully provided withhandles. In my own neigh-bourhood, in Hertfordshire,I have myself picked upseveral such implements;and they have been found inconsiderable numbers in theneighbourhood of Ickling-ham in Suffolk, near An-dover, and in other places. Were proper Search made Fi°- 15—Oving, near Chichester. i for them, there are probably not many districts where it would befruitless. In Ireland they appear to be rare; but numerousroughly shaped implements of this class have been found inPoitou and in other parts of France. Th
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. ully provided withhandles. In my own neigh-bourhood, in Hertfordshire,I have myself picked upseveral such implements;and they have been found inconsiderable numbers in theneighbourhood of Ickling-ham in Suffolk, near An-dover, and in other places. Were proper Search made Fi°- 15—Oving, near Chichester. i for them, there are probably not many districts where it would befruitless. In Ireland they appear to be rare; but numerousroughly shaped implements of this class have been found inPoitou and in other parts of France. They are also met with inDenmark. As has already been suggested, it is by no means improbablethat some of these ruder unpolished implements were employed inagriculture, like the so-called shovels and hoes of flint of NorthAmerica, described by Professor Rau. I have a flat celt-likeimplement about six and a half inches long and three inches broad,found in Cayuga County, New York, which, though unground, hasits broad end beautifully polished on both faces, apparently by. 64 CHIPPED OR ROUGH-HEWN CELTS. [CHAP. IV. friction of the silty soil in which it has been used as a hoe. It is,as Professor Rau has pointed out in other cases, slightly striatedin the direction in which the implement penetrated the ground.* The implement represented in Fig. 16, rude as it is, is more sym-metrical and more carefully chipped than many of this -class. I found it, with several other worked flints,on the surface of the soil in a fieldbetween Newhaven and Telscombe,Sussex. At the place where I dis-covered it, had formerly stood abarrow, one of a group of four,the positions of which are shownon the Ordnance Map, though theyare now all levelled to the is of course possible that suchan implement may have been merelyblocked out, with the intention offinishing it by subsequent chippingand grinding, and that it was notintended for use in its present con-dition. Or it may possibly have beendeposit
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