NEOLITHIC IMPLEMENTS FROM THE NORTH DOWNS. II9 



sisting of the half of a small nodule of jet-black flint, from which 

 numerous long narrow flakes have been driven. Calcined flints 

 are extremely abundant. 



Together with the chips of flint one occasionally finds well- 

 fashioned implements. I have made outline drawings, which 

 are reproduced in the annexed plate, of my choicest specimens. 



The three implements at the top are very neatly finished 

 scrapers. Similar implements, mounted in handles, are used 

 by the Eskimos for scraping skins, hence the name. They are 

 the only three of the kind that I have found. Eough, concave 

 and irregularly shaped scrapers are common. 



The central figure is either another form of scraper, or else it 

 is a fabricator, i.e., an instrument employed in producing the 

 very fine flaking on arrow-heads, etc. 



The drawing in the lower left-hand corner represents the 

 two sides of a chipped arrow-head — the onlv one I have 

 obtained, I have also a very beautiful flake arrow-head. Small 

 triangular flakes that were probably used as arrow-heads are 

 abundant. 



The adjacent figure shews one of the pigmy flakes referred 

 to above. 



The instrument of which two \iews are given in the lower 

 right-hand corner, is a remarkably fine borer. It does not 

 appear to be quite finished, one edge of the boring portion being 

 only partly chipped. 



The above-described implements are all in the same fresh 

 condition and seem to be of the same minor age. With the 

 exception of the arrow-head, they are all fashioned out of flakes, 

 the reverse side consisting in each case of a smooth surface, with 

 a prominent bulb of percussion at the untrimmed end. 



I think one is justified in assuming that these highly 

 finished implements were made for the purposes of barter to 

 other people who were neither so skilled in their manufacture, 

 nor so fa\oured with a supply of siliceous material. Con- 

 sidering the amount of flint debvis scattered over the Downs, an 

 enormous number of implements must have been produced. If 

 they had been used by the makers only, one would expect to 

 find them on the site of manufacture, where, however, they are 

 really rare. 



