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experience, and that of other enthusiastic collectors, I must 
emphatically state such a view to be erroneous and most mis- 
leading. 
Before coming to Brighton I had had sufficient training to 
enable me to detect any flint implement which lay in my path 
during a walk across the fields or over the hills, and I felt fully 
qualified to commence similar expeditions in the neighbourhood 
of Brighton. But, surprising as it now seems to me, my first two 
years’ search in this district were very unproductive ones ; for not 
one flint axe rewarded my repeated rambles, and, of the few 
smaller flint implements I came across, none were of such 
workmanship or presentable appearance as to merit a place in the 
Museum collection. The result of these disappointments was an 
extension of my field of explorations to more likely localities. Of 
these Cissbury comes first on the list. In the entrenchment itself 
I discovered little of any value. The best hunting-grounds, I 
found, were the cultivated patches of Downland in its vicinity ; 
and, in carefully and methodically working these, I met with 
much success. On my first visit I turned up no less than a 
dozen flint axes, three only of which were perfect specimens. 
During another visit I was rewarded with an axe, a gouge, a 
dagger, and a large boring instrument, the three latter being rare 
types, hitherto unrepresented in our local collection of flint 
implements. 
‘An extended search in this district led to the observation 
that the axes do of lie scattered broadcast over the hills, but that 
they are confined to certain spots, and that, where one finds a 
single specimen, several others may generally be revealed by a 
diligent search. This fact also led me both to cultivate a minute 
observance of any evidence which would enable me to trace such 
productive sites, and to the endeavour of fathoming the reason 
why they should occur in this manner. 
Such an observance was attended by the discovery that other 
prehistoric remains invariably and abundantly occur on these 
spots in close association with the flint axes ; and, as these 
associated remains have an important bearing on the subject of 
my paper, I now propose to deal with them in detail. For this 
purpose I have selected typical examples from the various sites 
on the Downs. As the initiated will observe, they consist of flint 
flakes ; flint cores: hammer-stones ; the smaller flint implements, 
such as scrapers, needle-makers, arrow-shafters, and borers ; and 
the calcined flints with which prehistoric man boiled water and 
cooked his food 
The flint flakes are by far the most abundant, occurring, as 
they do, by the thousand. These were either chips struck from a 
flint by primitive man to serve for cutting or scraping purposes, 
or the chips produced during the fabrication of some flint tool, 
such as an axe. As the ordinary observer experiences the 
