34 EARLY MAN IN DORSET. 



some domestic animals. When we say they polished their 

 implements, this does not mean that they did not continue 

 to use roughly chipped flints as well. Undoubtedly they 

 did this, and it is not always easy to assign a roughly 

 chipped implement to any definite period. What we can 

 say is that there is marked progress in the delicacy of the 

 manufacture of flint tools and weapons, and that these still 

 found a " market " long after the introduction of metals. 

 This was particularly the case with arrow heads. In the 

 Farnham museum there is a human vertebra with a flint 

 arrow head firmly fixed in the front. The deadly arrow 

 must have passed through the man's body and have been 

 arrested by the bone. 



When art appears in later Neolithic days it furnishes 

 no representations of human or animal life, such as we 

 find in paleolithic times. Neolithic Art is geometrical 

 ornamentation. It is an imitation of thong work, basket 

 work, and other forms which the eye had been accustomed 

 to see and expected to see. A Neolithic cupped stone was 

 found in a barrow at Came, Dorset. Pottery is abundant, 

 but it is rough and made without the potter's wheel. 

 Potteries have been discovered in the New Forest, but they 

 may belong to the Bronze Age. 



Dorset is well supplied with Long Barrows, the most 

 important being at Bere Regis, Chettle, Eastbury, 

 Gussage, Kingsdown, Badbury Rings, Litton Cheney, 

 Pimperne, Tarrant Hinton, and Worbarrow. In every 

 case a cell or hut was first built of the largest stones available. 

 Sometimes there is a central passage with cells on either 

 side. After one or more interments had taken place, a huge 

 mound of earth was heaped up over the whole. In some 

 localities, especially on sloping ground, the earth would in 

 course of time be washed away and nothing Isft but the 

 great stones, then called a "dolmen." Neolithic man is 

 in this way connected with the megalithic or great stone 

 monuments which are found not only in Europe, but over 

 North Africa , and as far afield as India and Japan. He reared 



