ARROWPOINTS, SPEARHEADS, AND KNIVES. 



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It is cited here to show how these discoveries of mines, quarries, and 

 workshops are being (iontinued. If more earnest search were made, 

 more mines and workshops woidd be discovered. It has come to be a 

 canon in archa^ologic hxw, recognized in France, that the evidences of 

 prehistoric man are to be found, not in proportion as they exist, but in 

 proportion to the number and activity of tlie seekers. The nodules of 

 flint at Champignolles were in the clialk and were mined and worked 

 into implements. Twelve i)its were found, of which nine were excavated 

 and exposed. A section 

 is given (fig. 57) which 

 will sufficiently explain its 

 condition. 



Grimes Graves, Bran- 

 don, Sujf'oll', England. — 

 These are flint mines or 



quarries, celebrated un- 

 der the ancient name of 

 Grimes Graves and in 

 modern times under the 

 name of Brandon. They 

 have been worked for hun- 

 dreds of years to make 

 guuflints and strike-a- 

 lights. There are similar 

 manufactories in many 

 places in Europe. Be- 

 sides Brandon, flints are 

 made at Ichlington, Suf- 

 folk, at Norwich and Salis- 

 bury, England; at Meus- 

 nes, in France, and at 

 Cero, Italy. In former 

 times the business was of 

 such importance that in 

 France exportation of the 

 products of certain mines 

 was prohibited by law. 

 In the later days the de- 

 maud has fallen away so as to have become insignificant, yet Brandon 

 leads the world. The strike-alights are continued in use by peasants 

 and laborers, and by explorers and travelers in semicivilized countries. 

 Sir John Evans visited Brandon in 180() and Mr. James Wyatt in 1870, 

 both of whom have described the mines.' At those periods there were 

 twenty or thirty persons engaged in the business. The raw material 

 costs, for mining, royalty, cartage, etc., about $2,50 a ton, and manu- 



rig. 57. 



SECTION OF A PIT OF THE PREHISTORIU FLINT MINE AT (JHAMP- 



IQNOLLES (OISE), FRANCE. 



L'AnthropoIogie, U, No. 4, 1891, p. 448, fig. 3. 



A, blocks of chalk used for fllling; JB, argillacooiis earth; C, 

 vegetable earth; i>, solid chalk beil with flint nodule.**; JJ, 

 a line of charcoal; F. flint cliips, debris of workslioj) ; (I, a 

 hatchet chipped for polishing; II, deer-horn picks, imple- 

 ments, etc. 



Scale : 1 inch eciual.s G feet. 



'Ancient Stone Implements, p. 14; Flint Chips, p. 578, 



