A HISTORY OF SURREY 



Scrapers, formed of trimmed flakes, and so shaped as to present 

 a sharp and bevelled edge for cutting or scraping purposes, have been 

 found in abundance on the Hog's Back, at Wonersh, East Shalford 

 farm in Shalford parish, at several places on the North Downs, par- 

 ticularly Riddlesdown, and also on the surface of the fields around 

 Croham Hurst near Croydon. 



Of the more elaborately made objects, the fine spearhead discovered 

 many years since at Carshalton is a good example. It is lanceolate in 

 shape with a flat base and four small notches obviously intended to 

 receive the ligatures by which it was fixed into its shaft. There is an 

 account of it, with an engraving, in Skelton's Engraved Illustrations of 

 Ancient Arms and Armour from the Meyrick Collection. 1 Skelton, who 

 describes the spearhead under the heading of ' Ancient British Stone 

 Weapons,' mentions that it was found 6 feet below the surface of the 



ground at Carshalton in Surrey, and pre- 

 sented by Edmund Lodge, Esq., Norroy 

 King-at-arms. Other examples of daggers 

 have been found at Peasemarsh (near 

 Guildford) 8 and Walton - on -Thames. 3 

 There is reason to doubt whether some 

 of these objects which look like spear- 

 heads and are often supposed to have 

 been used as such were not originally 

 mounted in a short handle and used as 

 knives. The methods of modern savages 

 suggest the probability of some of the 

 so-called spearheads having been so used. 

 Several neolithic hammer-stones, usu- 

 ally of some kind of sandstone and fur- 

 nished with a hole for the handle, have 

 been found in Surrey. The usual form 

 is ovoid or discoidal. Examples have been 

 found at Battersea, Hazlemere, Redhill, 

 Reigate, Titsey and Wanborough. 



There are some implements which 

 have been shaped only roughly by chip- 

 ping and subsequently perfected by long- 

 continued use. To this class belong 

 crushers and pounders which have been 

 worn to a spherical shape by having been 

 used for crushing. Examples have been 

 found at various places in Surrey. They 

 seem to have been sometimes used in con- 

 nection with masses of sandstone which have been considerably worn 



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SPEARHEAD, OR KNIFE, CARSHALTON. 



1 Vol. i. pi. xlvi. ; Evans, jfncient Stone Implements, ed. 2, p. 351. 

 8 Evans, op. cit. ed. 2, p. 353. 

 3 Evans, op. cit. p. 351. 



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