18 INTRODUCTION. 



neighbourhood of Harleston are almost exclusively of the older 

 or rough-chipped type, the ground and polished implements of 

 the Neolithic Period being extremely rare. Of the following 

 specimens four are in my own collection ; it will be observed 

 that there is no record of a Neolithic weapon : 



POLISHED IMPLEMENTS. 



TYPE. CONDITION. MATERIAL. LOCALITY. 



Axe ... Perfect ... Dark flint ... St. Margaret's. 



Axe ... Butt end ... Dark flint ... St. Margaret's. 



Axe ... Butt end ... Dark flint ... St. Margaret's. 



Axe ... Butt end ... Chert ... Flixton. 



Hammer* ... Perfect ... Quartzite ... Harleston. 



" The rough-chipped implements and weapons discovered 

 in the district consist of axes of various descriptions, scrapers, 

 spear, javelin, and arrow-heads, all of flint, many very roughly 

 worked, and stained or encrusted with the material in which 

 they have been resting since their disuse. Whether all these 

 older implements should be referred to the extreme antiquity 

 of the Hoxne flints it is difficult to say, as they have been 

 picked up in most cases on the surface of the land, on stone- 

 heaps, or in the bed of streams.! My brother, however, 

 discovered in a newly-opened pit at Brockdish an implement 

 in situ, which may probably have been wielded by Paleolithic 

 man in times when the mammoth and woolly rhinoceros, whose 

 bones lie buried in the ancient gravels of our valley, shared 

 with him the struggle for existence.! This specimen is sin- 

 gularly worked, and evidently intended for fighting purposes. 

 It is nearly semicircular, the entire edge eight inches in length, 

 and with a natural hole through the substance of the stone 

 towards the back, which could be utilised for passing a thong 

 through in hafting. 



" Space will not permit a complete list of all the rough- 

 chipped flints found in the neighbourhood. The following are 

 selected types of these older implements in my own possession, 

 most of them nearly perfect : 



KOUGH- CHIPPED INSTRUMENTS. 



TYPE. MATERIAL. SIZE. LOCALITY. 



Battle-axe Grey flint 6 in. x 4 in. Pit, Brockdish. 



Battle-axe Dark flint 5 x 2^ Stone heap, St. Margaret's. 



Adze Dark flint 4 x 2J- Roadside, St. M. 



Spear-head Grey flint 4| x 2 Ploughed field, St. M. 



* In the possession of the Rev. C. R. Manning, Rector of Diss. 

 t Evans, Ancient Stnn". Implements of Great Britain, pp. GO 77. 

 J Cf. Wilson, Prehistoric Man, pp. 2628. 



