Jtote* on the tont Implement*, #r., in the 

 or0et 



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By H. J. MOULE, M.A. 



ET me begin by saying in what spirit it is that I 

 act on Dr. Smart's suggestion that I should write 

 a paper on the Stone Implements, &c., in the 

 Dorset Museum. I aim low. Our collection 

 would be . poor without the specimens acquired 

 from Mr. Cunnington. Now he promises a book 

 on his important researches. In view of this I, of course, must 

 take heed lest I seem to be in the slightest degree forestalling him. 

 And, apart from this, it is, I suppose, a short notice, not an essay, 

 that is wanted from me. In trying to carry out these ideas I have 

 an unpleasant fear that I am rash. It is very hard to condense 

 without squeezing out every particle of interest from a subject like 

 this. 



Probably some members of the Club entirely doubt the artificial 

 working of many of the flints and other stones called implements. 

 If so, I would ask my friends to remember that stone implements 

 as rude as the roughest ancient ones are in use, or have been in 

 quite recent years. In this Museum there is a very rudely split 

 pebble, which, found with charred and splintered moa bones in 



