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PALEOLITHIC. 
We do not in our County possess any relics of the Pre- 
Historic Man of that period—South and South-East of our County 
there were men living in various localities who have left behind 
them stone implements, of a rough nature, but yet shewing signs 
of man’s handiwork and design. ‘lhese are called Eolithic 
Stones, and are the earliest stones found in England shewing any 
design in their shape, but concerning these Eoliths I am not 
aware that any have been found in L.incolnshire—so we leave the 
Eolithic period and come to a still later period called the Paleo- 
lithic Period, and of this period none have been found in Lincoln- 
shire. Itis in the Neolithic Period or New Stone Age, in which 
we first find traces of mankind in our County of Lincolnshire. 
“The transition between the Paleolithic and Neolithic Age 
is still very obscure. We suddenly find,” so says Mr. Read of the 
British Museum, ‘a different culture and different kind of 
implements which indicate a different way of life, but we cannot 
say exactly how or where the old order gave place to the new.” 
Cave MEN. 
There are many who place Cave Men or the Cave Dwellers 
between these two periods of Paleolithic and Neolithic Periods 
and call it the Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age, but in Lincoln- 
shire we have no traces of Cave Man. 
Neouituic Men. 
Neolithic Man has left behind him in our County, his burial 
places, his weapons of war, his tools for domestic use and his 
arms for the chase, his boats for river use, his pottery for domestic 
and ceremonial life. 
In one instance the body and dress of one of these Neolithic 
people was found preserved in the bog or peat of the N.W. 
District of Lincolnshire known as the Isle of Axholme. ‘The 
figure of a warrior carved in oak with an arrow in his hand 
was also found in the same part of the County. 
From these remains we may learn something of the life he 
_ lived in this period in our County. ‘These weapons or remains 
