246 ORIUI>'AL ARTICLES. 



Nor have these discoveries been confined to France. There has 

 long been in the British Mnseum 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 JNIr. Bagford, 

 " dated 1715, printed in Hearne's edition of Leland's Collectanea, 

 " Vol. I. 6. p. Ixiii. iVom 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 those foimd in the 

 valley of the Sonime. 



Li the museum belonging to the Society of Antiquaries, Mr. 

 Evans found, on his return from Abbeville, some specimens exactly 

 like those in the collection of M. Boucher de Perthes. On examina- 

 tion 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 

 Suff"oIk, and had well described and figured them in the Archseologia 

 for the year 1800. 



Again, twenty-five years ago, Mr. Whitburn of Godalming, (See 

 Prestwich, Ggol. Jour. August 1861), examining the gravel pits be- 

 tween Guildford and 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 foixnd 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 de- 

 tract from the credit due to that gentleman. 



In addition to the aboN'e mentioned, similar hatchets have been 

 found in Suflblk, Kent, Bedfordshire, and Hertfordshire. In the 

 first of these counties Mr. Warren of Ixworth obtained one from a 

 workman in a gravel pit near Icklingham, and he subsequently 

 found another himself. This specimen closely resembles the one 

 figured in this E/Cview (Vol. I. PI. VII. fig. 10), which was given 

 to me by M. Marcotte of Abbeville, who obtained it from Moulin 

 Quignon. 



The next discovery was made by Mr. Leech, on the shore between 

 Heme Bay and Eeculvers, whence altogether eleven specimens have 

 been obtained, six found by Mr. Leech, and five subsequently by 

 Messrs. Evans and Prestwich and Wyatt.* In the gravel near Bed- 

 ford, again associated with remains of the mammoth, rhinoceros, hip- 

 popotamus (?), ox, horse, and deer, Mr. Wyatt has foimd implements 



* " Another implement of the round pointed form has been discovered in Kent 

 (Nov. 18G1), on the surface of the ground at the top of the liill on the east side of 

 the Darcnt, about a mile E.S.E. of Ilorton Ivirby, by Mr. Whitakcr, F.G.S., of 

 the Gcok)gical Siu-vey." — (Evans' Archa;ologia, 1861, p 18.) 



