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that the use of chipped weapons by no means ceased when those of 
polished stone, or even of metal, came into use; and although this 
cave had evidently been occupied by man up through the bronze period 
to the time when Roman pottery began to find its way into it, yet 
there was evidence that chipped flint implements, of much the same 
degree of merit, continued in use during the whole period of its 
occupation. 
Not only the great antiquity, but the widely-extended use of 
stone weapons, both chipped and polished, was next pointed out; and 
a comparison was made of such as are now used in Africa, in the South 
Sea Islands, in Australia, New Zealand, in the arctic regions, &c., 
with those formerly used in this country. ‘‘ Mr. Willett (said Mr. Scott) 
has kindly sent a New Zealand weapon, to show the mode of fixing it 
into the wooden handle. In the Bury Museum is one where a flat 
blade of jade, very much like one from St. Mary Bourne, was fixed 
sidewise into a handle split at one side, and then secured with string. 
These showed the way in which many flint weapons were fixed in 
wooden and bone handles, although many were used in the hand. Mr, 
Willett’s specimen further illustrated the enormous amount of time 
and patient labour which a savage could afford to bestow upon his 
stone and wooden weapons, and the great skill which they acquired 
by practice in their production.” 
Returning to our country, Mr. Scott quoted a passage in which 
Dr. Stevens recorded the discovery of a spot ‘‘ which,” as he said, 
‘‘had evidently been the scene of flint working during a long 
period,” in a field known as Breach Field, situated on a hill about 
a quarter of a mile N.E. of the village of St. Mary Bourne, and 
specimens of which he now forwarded, “that,” he wrote, 
‘‘you may see the kind of humanly-wrought flint commonly 
found here,” and so ‘‘observe the more common form of flint objects 
likely to be found on the Sussex hills.” They should not, however, 
feel disappointed if they found no better, after considerable search, 
« Perhaps,” adds Dr. Stevens, “some of your members will dispute 
that the stones are humanly wrought. They should, however, look 
attentively at the specimens. They had better study an inferior 
specimen than a good one, as well as others they may happen to find, 
as the eye requires instructing, as in the use of the microscope.” This 
matter of the education of the eye was granted in all other branches of ~~ 
research, and in this too we came back to itas the grand point after all, 
