By Joseph Stevens, Esq. 109 



concave on its upper, and showing evident marks of polishing by 

 friction. Near it several rudely wrought discoid flints were found, 

 resembling slingstones, but much larger; and as the angles of one 

 or two of them are rounded off by attrition, it is not unlikely that 

 they had been used for raullers. 



A third site occupies the crest of a hill on the west of the Test 

 Valley, and immediately overlooking the hamlet of Stoke. The 

 implements are here better wrought, the axes being smaller, and 

 neatly chipped. The scrapers are nearly all circular or oval, and 

 the flakes longer and more shapable, and were evidently struck 

 with greater care and dexterity. The site extends for about 1 00 

 yards by the side of a copse, a part of which was not long since 

 grubbed ; and it is singular that not a single specimen of any kind 

 occurs on the newly grubbed ground. This would appear to testify 

 that the wood must have been in existence at the time when the 

 implements were manufactured. 



It has been previously stated that the implements consist of 

 celts or axes, scrapers, awls, drills, slingstones, &c. ; these being 

 the names by which they are commonly known. But we should 

 be careful in assigning any particular uses to such implements, as 

 very little is really known about them ; and as Mr. Evans stated 

 in his excellent address, at the late opening of the Blackmore 

 Museum," at Salisbury, the form of any implement should not always 

 be received as indicating the use to which it was applied. We 

 may, however, glean some knowledge of the purposes for which 

 they were shaped by a comparison of them with implements of 

 similar form and material, used by savages at the present day. 

 Such an exemplification is furnished by the Salisbury collection, 

 where tools and weapons, in various kinds of stone, from different 

 parts of the world, are arranged so that the modern implement 

 may be the exponent of the ancient one. 



Of the scraper, a small flint tool commonly met with wherever 

 implements abound, I have found six or seven types. They vary 

 in length from one to six inches, and in shape are more or less 

 oval or round. A few are adze-shaped and considerably curved, 

 and appear to have been used after the manner of the carpenters 



