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Roman Ages clearly shows that a modified form of flint chipping 
long survived the introduction of the use of metals. If we take 
into consideration the fabrication of flint flakes for use as strike- 
a-lights and gun-flints, we may trace its continuity through 
prehistoric and early historic times right down to the present day. 
Viewing the discoveries of burnt flints, or pot-boilers, in a 
similar light, we find there are authentic records of their invariable 
and abundant occurrence in association with the remains of the 
Neolithic, Bronze, Early Iron, and Roman Periods, thus showing 
the practice of stone-boiling and flint chipping survived together 
from the Neolithic period down into early historic times. A _pot- 
boiler, flint flake, scraper, &c., found on the surface of the 
Downs, may consequently belong to any one of the above ages ; 
and the difficulty of assigning even an approximate period to 
such surface finds will now be very apparent. 
Before proceeding further, I would acquaint you with yet 
another interesting survival, namely, the hand-made pottery of 
prehistoric times. In a former paper read to this Society,* I 
pointed out the rare occurrence of pottery in any shape or form in 
association with the remains of the Neolithic people. From the 
few fragments hitherto discovered, we know it to be a coarse and 
badly-baked hand-made type of pottery. In the succeeding 
period—the Bronze Age— the pottery exhibits evidence of great 
improvement, though it was still of a coarse character and made 
solely by the hand. Moreover, judging by the complete 
specimens and the enormous number of fragments invariably 
found with the remains of this age, pottery seems to have been 
in universal use. Of the introduction of the potter’s wheel during 
the Early Iron Age, we have ample proof in the number of 
“Jathe-turned ” specimens discovered, and the universal adoption 
of the potter’s wheel in Roman times must have been so well 
shown in my former paper as to need no further comment here. 
At a recent meeting of this Society, there were exhibited five 
cinerary urns, presented to the Museum by Mr. W. Henry 
Campion, which were found in the sand pit at Hassock’s Gate 
last year, associated with a number of Roman pots, the majority 
of the latter also containing cremations, In fact, judging by 
the nature of the various “finds,” the place seems to have been 
the site of a Roman Cemetery. As you may have observed, the 
five urns are all hand-made, and similar, in every respect, to 
those of the Bronze Age ‘Their occurrence, therefore, with 
Roman pottery in a Roman Cemetery, and not according to the 
stereotyped modes of burial which obtained in the Bronze Age, 
at first seems very problematical. But, in excavations made by 

* The Pottery of Prehistoric and Roman Britain, by H. S. Toms ; 
Proceedings of Brighton and Hove Natural History and Philoso- 
phical Society, 1900-1901. 
