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sub-divided iuto about 25, as might be seen by reference to the 

 before-named paper. He had for simplicity's sake, divided these 

 into six groups. Of these 90 stones, he looked upon few as 

 finished weapons, regarded from an external point of view, but 

 considered that many were finished as far as the purpose for which 

 they were intended to be applied, as for instance, the wedges and 

 hammer stones would not be considered as typical specimens of 

 neolithic stone art, but when one looked at the two opposite, 

 namely, the pointed and battered ends of the wedge, and face of 

 the hammer stone, it was seen how useful they could be in the 

 hands of a people to whom the use of iron was unknown, in 

 detaching blocks of chalk. Foi'ty-five (or nearly one half the 

 whole amount) were rough unfinished cores, i.e., flints which had 

 been worked more or less, but which did not show, fi-om secondary 

 chipping, any marks of completion or usage ; and these must be 

 looked upon either as having been found unfit to be manufactured, 

 by some flaw in the grain of the flint, or, from the incompetence 

 on the part of the workman, to have been cast aside as spoilt 

 material, rather than to be archaic types of hatchets or axes of 

 palaeolithic forms. 



Then came the wedges to which i-eference had been made and 

 the correlative hammers. Of scraper-like objects, i.e., stones with 

 one side flat and the other levelled up to it by small chippings, 

 there were seven. One was made of a very curious flint indeed. 

 There were in all twelve celts, mostly of the common wide type, 

 broader at one end than the other. Of their use we could only 

 speculate, as he was not aware of any of the shape ever having 

 been found afiixed to a handle ; they occurred with one or two 

 exceptions at eight feet. Of the used flakes two were very good, 

 being worked into the form of knives, and showed evidence of 

 their use in that capacity, for which they were well adapted. 



So much had been previously written on the character of the 

 Cissbury flints by Colonel Fox, Dr Stevens, and others, that he 

 should not refer to them at more length than simply to say that, 

 whilst at work in August, he obtained several good implements 

 from the surface soil round about the mouth of the pit, some, 

 indeed, in a high state of finish. Several plainly exhibit Steen- 

 strupp markings. One thing of interest that turaed up was a 

 piece of hard quartzifce, and which had one of its sides polished by 



