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manship from the pit ; secondly, to state that many thanks were 

 also due to his friend Canon Greenwell, of Durham, for the valuable 

 sugcjestions he had from time to time supplied him, and for the 

 kind permission he had given him freely to use and refer to his 

 valuable paper on Grime's Graves. If he could answer a question 

 on any point that he had not made sufBciently clear he should be 

 very happy to do so to the best of his ability, and he must thank 

 them for their patient and courteous attention. 



The President (Mr Alderman Cox) said he thought he 

 should but express the opinion of everyone in the room if 

 he said that the paper which Mr. Ernest Willett had read had 

 been of very great intei'est, and that their best thanks were due to 

 him. The trouble taken in the preparation of the paper must have 

 been very considerable ; and he proposed that the best thanks of 

 the society be tendered to Mr "Willett. 



Mr. T. W. WoNFOR thought it the general opinion of those 

 present that Mr Willett need not have apologised for the paper he 

 had brought before them. The essay was a most exhaustive one, 

 and it had, he thought, satisfactorily cleared up the point as to 

 what was the meaning of these pits and galleries. A good many 

 had been much puzzled on the subject; but the evidence which Mr 

 Willett had adduced, put side by side with that of Canon Green- 

 well, nnmistakeably pointed to the pits having been primarily — 

 whatever might have been their secondary or subsequent uses — 

 for the purpose of obtaining the flint necessai-y to the manufac- 

 ture of flint implements. One point had especially struck him. 

 A few weeks ago, certain members of the society were looking 

 over some of the pits at Cissbury, and they came upon pieces of 

 partly worked flint when turning over the surface soil. It had been 

 now explained that the pits were partially filled up and then used 

 as workshops for making the implements. Some had laughingly 

 said that it was all very well to try and make them believe that 

 the flint was used in the manufacture of implements ; and that 

 the flint was of such a character that it would not bear working. 

 Doubtless, however, the flint found near the surface was that 

 which had been discarded as useless. Others had argued that they 

 were merely natural flakes. The piece of sandstone which Mr 

 WiUett had produced bearing a smooth surface was, he thought, 



