112 Notes on some Worked Flints. 



when placed side by side with similarly rpcorded facts, they may 

 perhaps in the end help to lead up to some great historical general- 

 ization in the hands of a future master mind. Besides these 

 primitive weapons and tools, we have evidences of early tribes, in 

 the stone circles and tumuli on many of our hills, as well as the 

 outlines of pit-dwellings in some of the neighbouring woods. It 

 might, I think, be assumed that the implements were manufactured 

 long prior to Roman times; although instruments wrought in flint 

 might have been in use among a certain class of the people after 

 the Romans became dominant in England. Be this as it may, 

 there is little doubt that they represent a period when the busy 

 valley of the Upper Test was an untenanted and reedy swamp ; 

 when painted and half-clad savages wandered among the forest 

 glades of Hampshire in search of food by hunting. The sites for 

 flint making on the hills, were probably exposed places, favourable 

 for yielding material, where these aborigines, as in the case of the 

 Australian natives at the present day, made their working holes 

 and fires, around which they wrought their flint cutlery of various 

 kinds, with which they prepared their skins for clothing, cut up 

 their food, formed rods for the purpose of building their temporary 

 dwellings, made shafts for spears and darts, and shaped the 

 weapons with which they attacked their enemies, and killed wild 

 animals in the chase. 



QUERIES RELATING TO STONEHENGE. 



Some of the church towers in the southern districts of the 

 county of Wills, have for their foundations large blocks of sarsen- 

 stoue. Can any information be given as to whether any of these 

 were brought from Stonehenge ? 



It is a subject of universal regret, that so many of the stones 

 have been taken from this remarkable structure. When, and for 

 what purpose were they removed ? 



Is there any confirmation of the report that a large " Altar 

 etone" was taken to St. James's, in the time of James the First, 

 in or about 1620 ? The Secretaries will be glad to receive any 

 information on these points. 



