14 Darbishire, Implements fro7n the Kentish Plateau. 



For my present purpose then I will call your special 

 attention in the first place to a case which I have marked 

 No. I. In this tray there are i6 of the ruddy flints 

 varying in size from the half of a pebble, an inch and a 

 quarter in diameter, to a piece of flint 5 inches long, every 

 one of which exhibits a very distinct curve on one side or 

 on both sides, most like what remains after a piece has 

 been bitten out from a cake. 



These curves are uniformly marked by S3'stematic 

 chipping away of the former edge of the lump of flint, in 

 a new and — piece after piece — identical form. It is not 

 difficult to lay one of these curved edges upon another 

 and to see the very same curve represented in each 

 specimen, precisely as clearly as is seen under the 

 celebrated Whitworth gauges. That curve was most 

 certainly a " patent" of that day. 



In the same tray there are three specimens in which on 

 one edge the curve is duplicated, so as to make two curves, 

 separated by a nipple, as it were, between them, a form 

 equally certainly, deliberately completed. 



Some of these stones are marked by absolutely 

 distinct chips, which may be water wear or the marks 

 of frost chips. 



In the second tray I have arranged 19 specimens, 

 varying from one inch to about four inches in diameter, 

 every one of which has been shaped by special chipping, 

 so as to exhibit a medial terminal point between two 

 concurrent curves, equally manifestly another " patent." 



In a third case I have brought together a number of 

 obviously natural stones, either designedly or accidentally 

 split off from a larger piece, but everyone of them marked 

 with the characteristic lateral chipping. This chipping is 

 not like the beautiful systematic work of the palaeolithic 

 axe or the neolithic scraper, but is always so arranged as 



