By William Gowland, F.S.A., F.LC. 23 
of three implements in Class I., two of compact sarsen, and one of 
argillaceous sandstone) are of flint, and nearly all from their forms 
have been used by grasping them in the hand without the inter- 
vention of a haft or shaft. As to their use, they were not suitable 
for shaping or dressing the harder sarsen or the diabase rocks, as 
flint is much too brittle a material for that purpose. But for 
dressing the softer sarsens and especially the more easily worked 
fissile stones, they were perfectly adapted, and were doubtless used 
for that purpose. Nearly all bear’ evidence of extremely rough 
usage, their edges being jagged and broken, just as we should 
expect to find after such rough employment. Moreover, the severe 
fractures which some exhibit could only be produced by violent 
contact with other stones. The larger tools may also have served 
to excavate the chalk where too hard for the deer’s horn picks, and 
others for the general needs of savage life. 
_ All, notwithstanding their rudeness, are undoubtedly finished 
_ implements which have been in actual use, and not implements 
which have been discarded in the process of manufacture. 
Similar flint implements were found at Cissbury.! by the late 
General Pitt-Rivers; at Grime’s Graves,” near Brandon, Norfolk, 
by Canon Greenwell; and at Stourpaine, near Blandford, Dorset, 
by Mr. Durden. 
If we now compare the Stonehenge implements of the above 
classes with these it will be seen that many are very closely allied 
to them in form and some are practically counterparts. 
The Cissbury implements, of which a great many were found, 
_ were attributed by General Pitt-Rivers “to the Stone Age or at 
any rate to the age of the flint manufacture.” The fauna associated 
with them was undoubtedly neolithic. 
The implements from Grime’s Graves were found in the field 


immediately adjoining to the pits, and according to Canon Greenwell 
“in them we have the result, to some extent, of the operations of 
the people who quarried the flint in the so-called “Graves.” In 


' Archeologia, xlii., 53, et seq. 
? Journal of the Ethnological Society of London, 2nd series, ii., 419, e¢ seg. 
