108 Notes on some Worked Flints. 



where, during hunting excursions, a temporary halt was made 

 under emergency in order to replenish the bag ; while the sites 

 where worked flints are abundantly difi'used throughout the soil 

 were .visited for the express purpose of manufacture. 



Of these latter places the most important one occupies a con- 

 siderable area in an open field, known as Breach-field, situated on 

 a hill about a quarter of a mile north-east of the Upper Test Valley, 

 and immediately overlooking the village of St. Mary Bourne; the 

 field having formed part of Eggbury Down till 1772, when it 

 became arable. 



Implements have been found here in considerable abundance, and 

 represent most of the commonly received types of the so-named 

 celts or axes, arrow-head and spear-head flakes, scrapers, sling- 

 stones, awls, drills, hammers, crushers and pot-boilers ; and they 

 are evidently diffused throughout the soil as fresh specimens appear 

 after heavy rain. They are with few exceptions rude, and bear a 

 family likeness, as if the work of some particular sub-tribe or 

 family. Many of the specimens have the appearance of porcelain, 

 showing that they must have been long in contact with the 

 soil, and exposed to the action of the rain and air. The cores 

 or refuse from which flakes of various kinds have been removed, 

 are proportionately more abundant than the flakes themselves, 

 evidencing perhaps that a large number of the latter had 

 been used, or at all events taken from the place of manufacture. 

 A good deal of the material is merely such waste as one would 

 expect to find resulting from long past labour in the shaping of 

 useful tools. It is remarkable that among so large a number of 

 flaked flints no rubbed specimen should have been met with. 



On a hill situated on the north of Breach-field, and separated 

 from it by the Warwick Vale, a tributary to the Test Valley, flint 

 implements again occur. They are here sparingly scattered for 

 some distance along the crest of the range, and are coarser in 

 character than those from Breach-field ; the scrapers being much 

 larger and not so carefully edged. Here a heavy quern-stone or 

 grain-rubber was ploughed up a short time ago. It is of fine- 

 grained sandstone, convex and rudely chipped on its under surface. 



