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‘The Palceolithic Period” must be taken as a truly geological 
period, including the age of the gravel beds and the caves, The Neo- 
lithic must not be taken as including only polished weapons, for chipped 
weapons Were in use at the same time, and chipped arrow-heads extended 
into the Bronze period, provably the best examples belonging to it, and 
the Neolithic period merged by slow degrees into that of Bronze; for 
stone weapons, we are told by William of Poitiers, were used by some 
of the Saxons at the battle of Hastings. Dr. Stevens’ view might there- 
fore be accepted, that his surface weapons were Neolithic, and we may 
also look favourably at Colonel Lane Fox’s idea that those found by 
him at Cissbury were taken as forming a link between Palceolithic 
and Neolithic periods. 
The first discovery of rudely-chipped implements (embedded in 
gravel) was made by a correspondent of his old Society, the 
Suffolk Archeological Institute, Mons. De Perthés, in the 
valley of the Somme, in the gravel at Abbeville, &. By and 
bye, they were found in the gravel at Hoxne, in Suffolk, or 
rather Mr. Evans, after his return from Abbeville, found specimens 
from Hoxne in the British Museum, which had been found and recog- 
nized as of human workmanship by Mr. Frere in 1800—36 years before 
the announcement of the Abbeville discovery. They were now proved 
to exist in the districts round and in Bury, as well as in many other 
districts, such as the old gravels of the Itchen and Avon. Then they 
were found in caves, such as Kent’s Hole and Wookey Hole, near 
Wells, and other caves in this country, associated with the remains 
of hyena, &c. ; also, in the Dordogne and other caves in France. 
In the latter, all the marrow bones of the ox, &c., were found, smashed 
to pieces, evidently with the rude flint weapons found with them. 
Here, also, were found rude figures of animals, &c., engraved on 
fragments of stone and on reindeer antlers. This might be 
taken as closing the first period. Then flint chipped imple- 
ments were found associated with human remains in barrows, 
and in such instances as the nicely-chipped little arrow-head from 
our Museum, which was found at the left side of a skeleton in County 
Dublin. A curious instance was discovered in the upper part of the 
fen at Wisbeach, where a Bos Primogenius was found which had been 
killed with a large chipped flint, which was driven into the brain. The 
skeleton of a Northern chief was also found in a rude stone coffin in a 
large cairn on a moor in Scotland, with one arm almost cut from the 
