110 Notes on some Worked Flints. 



bentshave. Some again are long and straight-sided, others are 

 semilunar in outline, while in anothier type they are wrought at 

 both ends as if with the intention of forming a double implement. 

 They have received their name from their resemblance to similar 

 stone implements used by the Esquimaux in preparing the skins of 

 afaimals which they use for clothing. 



Respecting the celts or hatchets the types are also various ; some 

 being shaped alike at both ends, the body being bi-convex. Others 

 have the ends of similar form, but the implement is flat on one 

 surface, convex on the other. Again, they occur pointed at both, 

 ends, or one end is pointed and the other hatchet-shaped. This 

 type may be likened to the iron pick of the present day, and might 

 have been fixed to a rude handle at the centre. Then there are 

 forms truncate at one end, and hatchet-shaped at the other ; and 

 truncate implements from tabular-flint. These last are long, clumsy 

 and equare-sided ; one end being quite blunt, the other terminating 

 in a flattish point. The savage appears to have taken a hint from 

 nature, and used a flint somewhat shaped to hand, little more 

 having been done than to give the flint a more uniform outline, 

 and chip the point to the requisite shape. Such ungainly imple- 

 ments could hardly have required mounting, and must have been 

 used as hand implements. 



Then there are cores, which are merely refuse flints from which 

 flakes have been struck ; and the flakes which have evidently been 

 struck from such cores. Flint-knives also, and arrow-heads, and 

 stemmed javelin flakes, which bear a strong resemblance to the 

 obsidian flakes used in preparing darts by the natives of New 

 Caledonia. Among the tools may be enumerated awls and drills, 

 the former probably used for punching eyelets in leather, the latter 

 for drilling holes in wood, bone and horn, or even in boring stone. 

 The slingstones are interesting and fine specimens are found in 

 Hampshire ; they are mostly circular and roughly cut, as if with 

 the object of rendering them more capable of inflicting punishment. 

 To " pot-boilers " it is difficult to assign any use ; but as they are 

 found with other ancient implements, and are evidently not natural 

 formations, they must have been formed for some object. Possibly 



