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shoulder by the stroke of a stone axe, a fragment of which remained 
in the bone. Lastly, they were found turned up by the plough on the 
surface of the ground in such numbers, and mixed with such multi- 
tudes of flakes and half-finished specimens, as to point to the likeli- 
hood that such spots were really great manufactories of such weapons. 
Possibly, some peculiarity of texture or toughness in the flint of particu- 
lar localities, or some extra skill of the inhabitants, might have led to the 
choice of such districts for the purpose, and from such a spot, which 
Dr. Stevens was now exploring, had come the specimens for which they 
were indebted to him that night. Mr. Prigg, of Bury St. Edmunds, who 
had been at work on this subject for many years in conjunction with 
the greatest authorities in England and France, wrote ‘‘ Your friend 
may have hit upon the site of a village of the old folk who wrought 
and used flint implements. At Icklingham, near this, a field or two 
adjoining have yielded more worked flints than the whole parish 
besides, and I have no doubt it was the site of a factory.” He then 
spoke of the great care with which savage man evidently selected flints 
suitable to his purpose, and stated that the Brandon flint-workers of 
the present day obtained their best flints from a layer 40 feet deep, 
whereas the upper layers, termed ‘‘ wall flints,” were of little use to the 
knapper. These men said ‘‘flint has no grain,” and a flint that will “run” 
or flake well was a very tractable subject in the hands of a fairly-skilled 
workman. 
To obtain suitable flints, Canon Greenwell had proved that the 
early races dug, in some instances, to the depth of 40 feet. He had 
cleared out such pits 20 feet in diameter which were found partially filled 
up, and existing as basin-shaped hollows at Grimes Graves, near 
Brandon, in Norfolk (the Saxons give the place the name of the Grimes 
or Witches’ Graves), and had found that they were used for this 
purpose, burrows even extending laterally at the bottom. In clearing 
the shaft, Canon Greenwell found no less than 70 antlers of the red- 
deer, and these were so cut into shape as to show that they were used 
as tools for the excavations. In one of the burrows which remained 
not filled up, lay a large nodule half extracted from the chalk, and by 
it two stag antlers, bearing, in the plastic material adhering to them, 
the imprint of the workman’s grasp just as he left it. Who can say 
how many ages ago? He mentioned this at some length, both for its 
very great interest and because it was in examining similar pits (25 of 
them) within the old ramparts at Cissbury Camp, that Colonel Lane» 
