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which the thumb or little finger might be placed, as one or the 

 other end of it was to be used, a better purchase being thus 

 obtained. Besides the smaller grinding stones, the larger ones 

 have also been found upon which the grain was pounded or 

 ground. 



I am not aware that a quern, or hand mill- stone, has ever been 

 discovered in a barrow upon the wolds, though they have frequently 

 been met with in the hut-circles (the foundations of houses) and in 

 the camps or other fortified places of many parts of Britain. The 



small hand mill-stones indeed have very rarely been found on the 

 wolds under any circumstances. This fact, which is a remarkable 

 one when their abundance in other localities is considered, may 

 possibly arise from the absence in the district of stone suitable for 

 such a purpose. 



It has been mentioned that these people possessed a variety of 

 domesticated animals, upon the flesh of which to some extent they 

 lived. It is probable that milk formed an important article of 

 food, and in connection with this, an interesting circumstance 

 which was observed at Grime's Graves may be mentioned. A very 

 large proportion of the numerous bones found there were of the ox, 

 and nearly all were those of animals of but a few days old. This 

 seems to imply that they were not able or willing to keep the 



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