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bit with its cutting surfaces at two opposed angles). Round 
scrapers, knives, gouges, chisels, &c., were also shown and ex- 
plained, as also was a bone needle-scraper from Reigate Hill. 
A nice set of lake-dwelling implements from Font, Switzerland, 
including a spindle whorl, which proved the acquaintance of 
Neolithic man with spinning and weaving, and a limestone net- 
sinker, equally demonstrating his knowledge of the piscatorial 
art, were exhibited. There were also a series of very fine lance, 
spear, and arrow-heads of the North-American Indians of 
Canada; chisels from U.S.A., the Fiji Islands, the Malay 
Peninsula, &c. The name Eolith (“ Dawn” or “ Early ” Stone 
Age) was next explained and defended. For far beyond the 
Paleolithic Age, at levels between 300 and 400 feet higher than 
the highest Paleolithic deposits known, implements of a deeply 
ochreous stain and of a much redder character, have been found 
on the plateau of Kent, by Mr. B. Harrison of Friston, near 
Eastbourne, and elsewhere, by the lecturer and Mr. W. J. Lewis 
Abbott, F.G.S., by Mr. Montgomery Bell, Mr. de Barri Craw- 
shay, in Kent, Mr. O. A. Shrubsole, F.G.S., in Berks, and by 
Mr. H. P. Blackmore near Salisbury, in gravel which corre- 
sponds to the pre-glacial southern drift of Prestwich, and which 
pre-dates the earliest remains of man hitherto known. These 
implements were suited to man’s simple needs and were used 
by primitive man when England had a milder climate than 
prevailed during the Great Ice Age (or Glacial Epoch) high up 
on the now vanished hill-range which once occupied the Wealden 
area, probably at a height 2,000 feet or more above mean high- 
water mark. These weapons and tools indicated that he 
probably used fire (for many of the tools look like strike-a- 
lights), cut, scraped, and used the hides of animals, crushed 
their bones for the contained marrow, bored and split wood, 
and scraped his feet and body to keep the skin soft and supple. 
There were also specimens of arrow-beads (fragments) picked 
up on the field of Marathon, most probably used by the Persian 
archers of King Darius, B.c. 490. 
