346 SIMILAR DISCOVERIES IN OTHER COUNTRIES. 



Godalming, remarked a peculiar flint, which he carried away, 

 and has since preserved in his collection. It belongs to the 

 "drift" type, but is very rude. Thus, this peculiar type of 

 flint implement has been actually found in association with 

 the bones of the mammoth on various occasions during nearly 

 a hundred and fifty years ! While, however, these instances 

 remarkably corroborate the statements made by M. Boucher 

 de Perthes, they in no way detract from the credit due to that 

 gentleman. 



In addition to the above-mentioned, similar hatchets have 

 been found in various other localities, as for instance by 

 Mr. Warren, at Icklingham ; by Mr. Leech, near Herne Bay ; 

 by Mr. Evans himself at Abbot's Langley ; by Mr. Norman 

 at Greenstreet Green in Kent ; by Messrs. Whitaker and 

 Hughes, near Dartford ; in fact, similar discoveries have been 

 made in most of our south-eastern counties. 



In the gravel near Bedford, again, associated with the 

 remains of the mammoth, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, ox, horse, 

 and deer, Mr. Wyatt* has found flint implements resembling 

 both of the two principal types found at Abbeville and 

 Amiens. This case is very interesting, because it shows that 

 the drift flint hatchets are subsequent to the boulder clay ; 

 the Bedford valley being cut through hills capped by a deposit 

 of that period. At Hoxne, also, the bed containing flint imple- 

 ments appears actually to rest on the boulder clay. 



The number of localities on the Continent in which stone 

 implements have been obtained from beds of the Quaternary 

 period has also largely increased. 



Stone implements, more or less resembling those charac- 

 teristic of the Palaeolithic Age, have also been found in other 

 parts of the world, as, for instance, in Assyria, North America, 

 Algeria, and Hindostan ; though except in the latter case we 



* Flint Implements in the Drift. tectural and Archaeological Society, 

 By J. Wyatt. Bedfordshire Archi- 1862. 



