248 Pri'hffiforir Arr/mcofof/t/ of <'iitl)ri<l<i<xlin'< 



extensive production of the various objects to whirl i tlie 

 names of axe, scraper, borer &c., are applied. From the borders 

 of Suffolk then, especially from Mildenhall, where the CMM- 

 vations at Grimes' Graves (see Greenwall and Rollestnsi, 

 British Barrows) still shew the method of flint extraction 

 from subterranean workings in the chalk, from Lakenheath 

 in the same neighbourhood, from the flint-strewn country 

 between these places and Newmarket, comes a cloud of wit- 

 nesses in the form of flint implements of palaeolithic 

 From Cambridgeshire itself the number is comparative! y small, 

 nevertheless palaeoliths have been dug up in Mauea Fen and 

 in Burnt Fen 1 . 



Coming to the Neolithic objects, the same general remark 

 as to their provenance holds good, again with the exception 

 that Manea Fen and Chesterton have yielded good examples 

 of worked flints of various sizes, those from Manea Fen 

 being distinguished by their rich red-brown colour. But 

 if we comprise Mildenhall and Lakenheath within our pro- 

 vince, we may note a profusion of forms and extraordinary 

 variety of objects of fine execution, and the Cambridge Anti- 

 quarian Museum can shew most excellent and complete 

 series of axe-heads, knife-flakes, borers, scrapers and chisels, 

 down to the tiny splinters which were perhaps used for bone- 

 carving or even tattooing; special notice should be given to 

 the wonderful collection of flint arrow-heads comprising flints 

 of every shade of colour, and of at least four well differentiated 

 forms (leaf-shaped, barbed, barbed and tanged, and triangu- 

 lar). Transitional forms between the chipped and the polished 

 implement are also exhibited. 



The greater number of implements recovered from the 

 peat are of polished stone. A notable example is the imple- 

 ment found embedded in the forehead of an Urns (the -real 

 extinct ox of pre-Roman Britain), and now exhibited in the 

 Geological Museum of the University. 



The material (quartzite). must have been brought hither 



1 Antiquarian Iteport, 1899, p. 6. 



