28 Schwartz & Beevor, Dawn of Hiunan Intention. 



a very small remnant seemed to be the unutilized bye- 

 product of manufacture. 



(87) Very rarely do these Eolithic tools show bilateral 

 symmetry, the majority have a considerable amount of 

 the original crust of the flint from which they were struck 

 left upon them. As to dimensions they are thick, and 

 generally as broad as they are long. These features, 

 though not precise for individual specimens, are very 

 distinctive when one looks at a collection, and similar 

 tools from the surface of the soil referred to below are apt 

 to run in a series of rather different proportions. 



(88) When a good tool is found— in this pit at all 

 events — with the special characteristics of its class but 

 without the bulb of percussion, the presumption must be 

 that it is man's design, and not due to a chapter of 

 accidents. 



(89) On the surface of the soil in the Croxley district, 

 bulbed tools of somewhat similar form to the above are 

 found in considerable numbers. They are never ochreous 

 in colour, and are manifestly not derived from the under- 

 lying gravel, and an inspection of a pit being worked 

 close at hand yielded no specimens. 



(90) These surface bulbed flakes admit of a classifica- 

 tion corresponding to that which has been given for the 

 tools from the gravel. The same dressing for handling 

 and the same chipping for re-sharpening re-appear. 



(91) No collection of them was made until a few 

 months back, and accordingly the exhibit here made is 

 the result of but a very meagre search over the plough- 

 lands of the neighbourhood, about 100 specimens being 

 collected at three sites of from one or two acres. 



(92) Of the tools, knives have not presented them- 

 selves in any number, and such as have been found are 

 cruder than the usual long Neolithic knife flake, and 



