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Northleach. His son, Dr Cardew, has shewn me some of the 
specimens, and they correspond with those I have exhibited, 
and he told me that he believes his father must have had 
200,000 flints, of all kinds, of which 10,000 exhibited evidence 
of human manufacture. 
I was glad to hear that the sadull of the Rev. J. H. Cardew’s 
observations is embodied in a paper which will shortly be read 
to the Gloucester and Bristol Archeological Society. 
In commencing my investigations I thought I might be 
able to arrive at some general conclusion as to the number of 
kinds into which implements might be divided, the proportion 
of each, and variation in certain localities; but I have failed 
to arrive at any general law. Of the most highly worked 
implements, the lozenge-shaped and pear-like forms are the 
least numerous; and the arrow-heads perhaps are the most 
abundant; whilst the number of all kinds found, and the 
evidence of progress from rude to higher forms, certainly point 
to a long occupation of our hills by man. Indeed, some of 
them are so beautifully worked as to shew much artistic skill 
in the design and manufacture. They are not implements of 
mere utility, and the old inhabitants probably possessed a 
higher degree of intelligence than is generally thought. 
I have been struck with the general resemblance of the 
implements found on our Cotteswolds to those of the York- 
shire Wolds, which seems to indicate a connection between the 
then inhabitants of both hill grounds. They may have been 
the Highlanders of the period. 
Although we have evidence of how flint implements are 
made and used by uncivilised nations, reasoning by analogy it 
is fair to assume that they were similarly employed by the 
Neolithic people ; yet, in looking over the various collections, I 
have observed some of the forms are so peculiar as to leave 
room for the imagination to run somewhat wild when suggesting 
the purpose for which many were intended, and more careful 
observation is necessary before their use is rightly understood. 
The subject of Neolithic implements may be thought by 
some to belong more to Archeology than Geology, but the 
