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« Ag to the date at which these cave deposits were formed, 
“history and tradition are alike silent, and at present even 
“‘ Geology affords but little aid in determining the question.” 
Paleolithic implements have also been found in caves; but 
Professor Boyd Dawkins believes there is distinct evidence 
that the River-drift men are older than the Cave men, and the 
latter possessed a singular talent for representing the animals 
they hunted as shewn by several sketches, found in the caves, 
on bone and stone. 
Neolithic implements are found in all parts of Great 
Britain and Ireland, in Europe, parts of Africa and Asia, and 
in Oceania. 
Dr Evans divides them as follows :— 
1. Those merely chipped out in a more or less careful 
manner, and not ground or polished. 
2. Those which, after being fashioned by chipping, have 
been ground or polished at the edge only ; and 
3. Those which are more or less ground or polished, not 
only at the edge, but over the whole surface (Ancient Stone 
Implements of Great Britain, pp. 59 and 88). 
He afterwards divides the latter under the head of Polished 
celts :— 
1. Those sharp, or but slightly rounded at the sides, and 
presenting a pointed oval, or vesica pixis, in section. 
2. Those with flat sides. 
3. Those with an oval section. 
4, Those presenting abnormal peculiarities. 
Dr Evans mentions the following ten places where flint 
implements had been found in Gloucestershire at the date of 
the publication of his book in 1872 :— 
A hatchet of greenstone near Cirencester. 
Flint flakes in graves from Oakley Park. 
Three flint flakes from a barrow at Rodmarton ; also some 
lozenge-shaped arrow-heads, apparently purposely injured at 
the point, from a long-chambered barrow. 
Two from base of the cairn in the chambered tumulus 
at Uley. 
