. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. n which is ground all along the ridge, and over theshire. % whole of the much coarser but somewhat similar form is shown in The instrument in this case is made from avery thick curved flake, roughly chipped into a boat-like form, and then more carefully trimmed alongthe edges. It may possibly have been used as aborer, as the edges near the point show some signsof attrition. It is of flint weathered grey, and wasfound by Mr. E. Tindall near Bridlington. I havefound a similar scaphoid form in Irel
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. n which is ground all along the ridge, and over theshire. % whole of the much coarser but somewhat similar form is shown in The instrument in this case is made from avery thick curved flake, roughly chipped into a boat-like form, and then more carefully trimmed alongthe edges. It may possibly have been used as aborer, as the edges near the point show some signsof attrition. It is of flint weathered grey, and wasfound by Mr. E. Tindall near Bridlington. I havefound a similar scaphoid form in Ireland.! A rather thick external flake, worked over nearly the whole of its convex face and reduced to about half its breadth for about a third of its length from the point, is shown in Fig. 237. The narrower part is nearly semicircular in section. It is difficult to Fig. 2 idiington. \ imagine a purpose for this reduction in width; and it hardly seems due to wear. I have, however, another specimen, also * Arch., vol. 253. f Ibid., vol. xli. pi. xviii. SOME FLAKES PROBABLY KNIVES. 295 from the Yorkshire Wolds, reduced in the same manner along fullythree-quarters of its length. Some of the worked flakes from the Dordogne caves * show a some-what similar shoulder, but it seems possible that with them the broaderpart may have been protected by some sort of handle, as the originaledge of the flake is there preserved. I now come to the instruments with more acute edges, made bydressing the convex face of flint flakes. Of these the form shown inFig. 238 is allied to that of Fig. 235, but is considerably flatter in section,and more distinctly oval in outline. The original was found by Mr. , near Bridlington. A hard particle of the flint has interferedwith the regular convexity of the worked face, but in some specimensthe form is almost as regular as a slice taken lengthwise off a lemon,though in others the outline presents an irregular curve. The flat face i
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