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article, of which, indeed, this chapter is in the main a 

 reprint. 



We examined carefully not only the flint weapons, but also 

 the beds in which they were found. For such an investi- 

 gation, indeed, our two countrymen were especially qualified : 

 Mr. Prestwich, from his long study and profound knowledge 

 of the tertiary and quaternary strata ; and Mr. Evans, from 

 his intimate acquaintance with the stone implements belong- 

 ing to what we must now consider as the second, or at least 

 the more recent, Stone period. On their return to England, 

 Mr. Prestwich communicated the results of his visit to the 

 Royal Society,* while Mr. Evans described the implements 

 themselves in the Transactions of the Society of Antiquaries.^ 



In the " Antiquites Celtiques," M. Boucher de Perthes sug- 

 gested some gravel-pits near Grenelle at Paris, as being, from 

 their position and appearance, likely places to contain flint 

 implements. M. Gosse shortly afterwards found flint imple- 

 ments in these pits, being the first discovery of this nature 

 in the valley of the Seine, while in that of the Oise a small 

 hatchet has been found by M. Peigne' Delacourt, at Precy, 

 near Creil. 



Nor have these discoveries been confined to France. There 

 has long been in the British Museum a rude stone weapon, 

 described as follows : " No. 246. A British weapon, found 

 with elephant's tooth, opposite to Black Mary's, near Grayes 

 inn lane. Conyers. It is a large black flint, shaped into the 

 figure of a spear's point." Mr. Evans tells us, moreover, 

 (1. c. p. 22), " that a rude engraving of it illustrates a letter 

 on the Antiquities of London, by Mr. Bagford, dated 1715, 

 printed in Hearne's edition of Leland's Collectanea, vol. i. 6, 



* On the Occurrence of Flint of a late Geological Period, May 19, 

 Implements associated with the 1859. Phil. Trans. 1860. 

 Remains of Extinct Species, in Beds f Flint Implements in the Drift. 



Archseologia, 1860-62. 



