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are accustomed to consider, and rightly so, as characteristic of 
neolithic man, would find no place in such work. They required 
too much labour and time for their manufacture, and, when made, 
‘could not have been more effective than the hammer axes and 
hammerstones found in the excavations, which could be so easily 
fashioned by merely rudely shaping the natural flints, with which - 
the district abounds, by a few well-directed blows of a sarsen pebble. 
These implements can therefore, I think, notwithstanding their 
rudeness, be legitimately placed in the neolithic age and, it may 
be, near its termination. 
Bones.—As regards the bones, they are only the bones and teeth 
of domestic animals, horses, oxen, sheep, goats, pigs, and dogs, and 
of rabbits and deer, not calculated to afford any evidence as to the 
date of Stonehenge. 
Of considerable importance, however, are the splinters of antlers 
of deer which occurred in most of the excavations, especially in 
Q, where they were found along with the stone tools, as they would 
seem to indicate that antlers were utilised as picks in digging holes 
for the stones. 
And, indeed, a portion of a large antler, with its lowest tine 
worn away apparently by such use, was found in the rubble im- 
nents, aided it may be by some of the larger flint tools. 
Ooins.1 These are of a very miscellaneous character, and all, 
Excavation III. 5 CM. 10 inches below the surface. 
A sestertius of Antonia, mother of Claudius (?) and daughter of Marcus 
: Antonius and Octavia. Her head is on the obverse, and on the reverse 
a figure of Claudius, her husband. 

+I am indebted to my friend Mr. H. A. Grueber, F.S.A., of the British 
Museum, for the indentification and description of these coins. 
