ARROWPOINTS, SPEARHEADS, AND KNIVES. 



879 



Fiji. 64. 



KLINT VOllE Wli H ITS FLAKES ]N PLACE AS STItl'CK. 

 Kvnus Ai]ii.-nt Stone Implunicuts, Ji. IS, tig. '.'. 



ic<al Institute, London, and published, and tlie objects were ji.oured.' 

 The author has taken tlie liberty of using the figure of the lianiiner 

 antt one of the Hint strike-a-lights made with it (figs. 62, 63). 

 ]\rr. Evans describes the hammer as— 



A siiijill clonnateil section of sqiian;, rude'y beaten iron hnv, about 2i inches long by 

 one-tbird of au iucli 

 broad, fitted l)y meaus 

 of a liole iu the mid- 

 dle to what seemed a 

 very sleuder handle. 

 Using this iustrunieut 

 with marvelous dex- 

 terity, he chipped out 

 the Hake into the re- 

 quired shape by sliort, 

 swift side strokes of 

 the baninier (p. 65). 



lieference is 

 made to Plates 

 8-10, where the 

 modern English 

 flint knapper's 

 hammer is shown 

 in all its varieties. 



I^illson- gives his personal experience iu the art of flint chipping. 



The methods of treating the nodule or block of flint by the use of the 



hammer (1) in preparing the nucleus, and (2) in striking ott' the flakes, 



have been shown in Plates S-10 and figs. 62-65, and described iu the 



making of gunflints at Prandon mine aiid the nuclei at Grand Pressiguy 



(Plate 7, tig. 1). By these de- 

 scriptions, combined with the 

 figure of a nucleus or core with 

 the flakes «nce struck oft' and 

 then replaced, the operation will 

 be understood and the descrip- 

 tions need not be repeated. Fig. 

 64 shows one of these nodules 

 from the Brandon quarry which 

 has been chii)))ed into flakes, 

 ready to be cut up into gunflints 

 or arrow points. These tiakes, having been struck oft", are, in the 

 engraving, replaced so as to show the process. Fig. 65 is a section 

 of a flint nucleus, with several flakes in pro(!ess of being struck off. 



Plate 25 shows the cores. Hakes, and the finished arrowheads of 

 obsidian as they are found in America. This nuiterial is of vol- 

 canic origin and it is usually attributed to the liocky Mountain 



Fig. 65. 



SECTION Oir FLINT NUCLEUS, SHOWING HOW FLAKF.S 



ARE STRUCK OFF. 



' Proceedings, XVI, p. (», pi. i. 

 *The Stouts Ag<; of Scandiuavia, p. 7, 



