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And it is conceivable that unwrought flint may itself 

 have been a matter of commerce ; in which case the nod- 

 ules would assuredly have been of good size and quality. 



The evidence of the East Lancashire floor shows that 

 the silicious material was derived altogether from the 

 drift, and that the nodules of flint were, as a rule, neither 

 good nor large, wliile a scarcity of them is disclosed by 

 the constant recourse to chert, and by the re-employment 

 of flakes already used and discarded. But the evidence 

 also shows that implements were manufactured m great 

 numbers on the floor itself. In other words, neither flmt 

 nodules nor flint implements were brought thither from a 

 distance— for the three celts belong to another floor and 



a later age. -^,,-01 



The suggestion is that the men who occupied the iiarly 

 Neohthic Stations of East Lancashire had been driven 

 from the Yorkshire coast by a victorious invasion— by the 

 wielder of the war-spear or the battle-axe of pohshed 

 stone ; and that they had clustered in a few inaccessible 

 parts of the country where they were shut off fi-om flmt- 

 producmg districts and were compelled to utilize the scanty 

 material of the drift. 



Their scrapers show that they clothed themselves with 

 garments of skin ; thek minute graving-tools indicate, if 

 not smallness of stature, at any rate dehcacy of workman- 

 ship and a love of ornament. They made no durable 

 pottery ; they probably did not spin ; and on the elevated 

 regions where they dwelt it is not likely that their pursuits 

 were agricultural. 



In fine, the general facies of their armament indicates 

 less the warrior than the hunter, and not so much a horde 

 of conquerors as a fugitive and a vanishing race. What 

 was this race, and by whom were these people assailed ? 



Ukn found at Hell Clough, near Buenley, September, 1886, 

 BY Mr. Tattersall Wilkinson of Worsthorne. 



