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come to be expected by the motleru investigator, and are found wher- 

 ever prehistoric man occupied the locality for any length of time. 



In Eees's Eiicycloi)edia' it is said that the best tiint found in France 

 iu modern times is that from the departments of Cher, Loir-et-Cher, 

 Ardeche, Yoniie, and Oise. M. de Mortillet has discovered in the 

 department of Vienna no less than 44 Neolithic workshops, and in 

 liidre-et-Loire 0, M. Philippe Salmon reports i^rehistoric workshops 

 in 14 communes in the department of Yonne. Tliis number would 

 undoubtedly be much increased if attention were given to the search 

 and if all found were reported. Siiecial workshops have been found 

 where particular implements were exclusively numufactured. De 

 Mortillet reports- hatchets chipped for polishing from Mariettes at 

 Londinieres (Seine-Inferieure), Olendon (Calvados), Forrt Othe (Yonne- 

 et Aube); i)erforators, Kemours (Seine-et-Marne); arrowheads, Camp 

 de Chassey (Saone-et-Loire). While arrowheads are in profusion in 

 the latter locality, it is not certain that they were manufactured there. 



The following mines have been found wherein scrapers were the 

 special product: liOche-au-Diable, Potigny (Calvados), Charenton 

 (Seine), Camp-Barbet, Meudon, Janville, Mouy (Oise), (roalenec, 

 Quiberon (Morbihan). Of the latter the author asks indulgence for a 

 few words of description, as he was present with M. Gaillard and 

 assisted at the discovery. 



Scraper tcorJcshop at GoaJenec, Quiberon {Morbihan), France. — It was 

 on the extreme i^omt of the i)romoutory of Quiberon, on the west coast 

 of Brittany, looking out upon the Atlantic Ocean, but which English 

 geograi^hers have arbitrarily called the Bay of Biscay — a high rocky 

 point, level with the surrounding surface, but 40 or 50 feet above the 

 water. It was severed from the mainland by a crevice a few feet in 

 width, passable only at low tide. The entire mass was of granite rock. 

 It was covered with a layer of soil which was nearly bare on the sitle 

 toward the ocean, having x^robably been denuded by the waves, but on 

 the inside edge was oh feet thick. Beginning at the outside edge, 

 screening, examining, and throwing the dirt behind us, bits of broken 

 and wrought flint and fragments of pottery were soon found. We 

 saved everything. Our work continued across the point until we had 

 thousands of objects, principally scrapers in all stages of manufacture. 

 It was a prehistoric scraper workshop. The peculiarity of these 

 scrapers was their diminutive size; many, i^erfectly finished, were no 

 larger than a man's thumb nail. At the edge farthest from the ocean, 

 where the soil was deepest, we unearthed the skeleton of a workman, a 

 man of middle age, he who jirobably had made these prehistoric imple- 

 ments, who had here lived and here died, and had been buried in his 

 workshoi) and habitation, which was from that time deserted, and now 

 discovered and unearthed by us. 



'Article "Flint." 



'^Le Pr61ii8torique Antiquity de rHomme, p. 490. 



