EARLY MAN 



tools or weapons will be noticed, there are other remains such as traces 

 of dwellings and camps of which it will be necessary presently to speak 

 in some detail. 



The sharp-edged ground axe or celt which must have been one of 

 the most valuable of the neolithic implements either for peaceable or 

 warlike purposes, and which indicates a great advance upon the tools of 

 the earlier age, has been found pretty evenly, but not plentifully, scat- 

 tered over the surface of the country. 



Examples of ground celts have been found at the following places 

 in Surrey : Albury, Ash (2), Chertsey, Chipstead, Croydon (3),Egham, 

 Dorking, Elstead, Kingston-on-Thames, Mitcham Common, Purley, 

 Puttenham, Reigate, Titsey, Whitmore Common in Worplesdon parish, 

 and Wisley. This does not profess to be a complete list, but it will 

 serve to indicate the distribution of antiquities of this kind in Surrey. 



NEOLITHIC FLAKES, REIGATE. 



It should be added that many examples of ground flint celts of the 

 neolithic age have been procured from the bed of the river Thames 

 near the Surrey shore. 



The varieties of forms of flint implements shaped by chipping 

 alone are very great, but examples of practically every class have been 

 discovered in Surrey. 



Perhaps one of the most remarkable collections of flakes, which are 

 the simplest forms of neolithic implements, was found between the 

 years 1848 and 1860 at Redhill near the railway junction. The dis- 

 covery, made by Mr. John Shelley, was communicated to the Society 

 of Antiquaries of London 1 early in 1860 by Mr. (afterwards Sir) John 

 Evans. The flakes were accompanied by numerous cores of flint, from 

 which it is evident that the manufacture of implements was carried 

 on at this spot. 



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