The Archaeological journal . proves his inabilityto mine it from the rock, besides the fact that there areno such excavations in the ancient cliff hereabouts, (unlikethe Neolithic man, a description of whose mines, withinfifty yards of this spot, is printed at page 332), and it islucky that it it was so, for we have before us a hache,which in making he had split and thrown away. Itslength is 44 by 3*1 inches. I have built up aroundit the pieces he struck oft, so as to shew his method, awild one, betokening great necessity and little art. Theupper half of the restoration has been lifted off, to
The Archaeological journal . proves his inabilityto mine it from the rock, besides the fact that there areno such excavations in the ancient cliff hereabouts, (unlikethe Neolithic man, a description of whose mines, withinfifty yards of this spot, is printed at page 332), and it islucky that it it was so, for we have before us a hache,which in making he had split and thrown away. Itslength is 44 by 3*1 inches. I have built up aroundit the pieces he struck oft, so as to shew his method, awild one, betokening great necessity and little art. Theupper half of the restoration has been lifted off, toshew the interior. Its dimensions are 105 by 5*5 inches.(See plate i). Another block is restored, shewing that the objectwas to obtain flakes for smaller implements, such asarrow-heads, knives, &c. Its greatest width is 42inches. Very many flakes appear to have been usedat their broad ends. (See plate n, fig. 1). There are two stones, which have been employed asstrikers or hammers; one, a green coated flint (here engra-. ved), which, having been chosen to suit the grasp of thehand, had been trimmed at either end to further that in-tent, and it is peculiarly suited to the work for which it waschosen ; the thick layer of tough crust on one side of itenabled the blow to be delivered with precision, and its 296 ON IMPLEMENTS AND CHIPS. own wear was reduced thereby, while it was not until con-tinued use had worn away this coat down to the blacksplintery stone that it was thrown aside. Its dimensionsare 3*8 in length and 67 circumference. The other issmaller, and appears to have been merely used tentatively. The work was done on the spot where I found thechips and tools, for they lay each near the other as theyoriginally fell ; some, having fallen over others, broke,and I found two long flakes broken in halves, with theends scarcely separated, which are studded on the opposedsurfaces with crystalline concretions, contracted afterbreaking, and of course while still in the soil; thussh
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