STONE IMPLEMENTS, ETC., IN THE DORSET MUSEUM. 25 

 II. 



In beginning a second paper on the Dorset Stone Implements 

 and other Appliances in the County Museum, I feel that it is no 

 easy task which I am taking up. For among the things now to "be 

 noticed are several of the utmost rarity, to say the least of it. 

 These deserve a far better describer than I can pretend to be. 

 But I must do my best. 



In the paper which I read on November 28th I followed pretty 

 nearly the order adopted by the great antiquary Evans in his 

 handbook. I pursue the same plan now as regards the few regular 

 classes of implements yet to be spoken of. But besides these there 

 are the rarities noticed above. These do not exactly fall into 

 Evans' category. After speaking of them, I again follow his lead 

 by closing with what I have to say in connection with Palaeolithic 

 implements. 



On November 28th, I described five classes of Neolithic 

 implements. I now come to Class vi., which consists of 

 trimmed flakes, knives, &c. Of these we have some characteristic 

 specimens. But, as far as I know, certainly as far as the Dorset 

 Museum collections are concerned, this county does not abound with 

 this kind of implement anything like so much as with the cognate 

 class known as scrapers. I would draw your attention to a very 

 beautifully wrought knife in the Smart Collection (PI. I., fig. 4). 

 It was found on Pentridge Hill. Conspicuous by their absence from 

 the Museum Dorset Collections, if not from the county, are three- 

 types of knife found in some districts. These are dagger-knives, 

 lance-head knives, and a curved and very elaborately flaked sort of 

 knife, found in Sussex and elsewhere. Perhaps I may here, as well 

 as at any other point, mention two puzzling flints in the Smart 

 Collection. They look almost like crystalline prisms, although 

 really nothing of the sort. They seem likely, at the very least, to 

 have been fashioned to their roughly prismatic shape for some 

 definite purpose. But what this may have been I find inscrutable, 

 unless just possibly to be used as punches in flaking other flints. I 

 hardly think this, however. 



