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Prehistorique en Belgique, second edition, p. 153), he may have obtained a light 

 by the friction of a bit of flint against a piece of iron pyrites, as is usual with the 

 Eskimos of the present day.*' 



Professor Dawkins also says that fire was obtained in the bronze age 

 by striking a flint flake against a piece of pyrites, sometimes found 

 together in the tumuli. He figures a strike-a-light from Seven Barrows, 



Fig. 40.— a Strike-a-light. Seven Barrows, Berks Countt, England. 

 From Dawkins Early Man in Britain, p. 358. (See Dr. John 

 Evans Ancient Stone Implement, pp. 284, 288, for a similar figure); 

 6 Strike-a-ught. Cat. No. 1861, U.S.N.M. Indians of Fort Simpson, 

 Mackenzie River district, British Columbia. Collected bt B. R. 

 Ross 



Lambourne, Berks, England, an outline of which is reproduced here 

 for comparison with the one from Fort Simpson, British Columbia. 

 (Fig. 40a and h.) Pyrites has been found in a kitchen midden at 

 Ventnor, in connection with Roman pottery ^° Chambers's Encyclo- 



«» Early Man in Britain, p. 210. London. 

 »» Idem, p. 258. 



