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MR. FRERE'S DISCOVERY IN 1800. 



p. Ixiii. From his account it seems to have been found with 

 a skeleton of an elephant in the presence of Mr. Conyers." 

 This most interesting weapon agrees exactly with some of 

 those found in the valley of the Somme. 



Mr. Evans, on his return from Abbeville, observed in the 

 museum belonging to the Society of Antiquaries, some spe- 

 cimens exactly like those in the collection of M. Boucher 

 de Perthes. On examination, it proved that they had been 

 presented by Mr. Frere, who found them with bones of extinct 

 animals in a gravel-pit at Hoxne in Suffolk, and had well 

 described and figured them in the Archseologia for the year 

 1800. This communication is of so much interest that I have 



FIG. i9o. 



FIG. 196. 



Hint Implement from Hoxne. 



