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But before speaking of one or two rare specimens of other appliances 

 of stone, or quasi stone, I must refer for a moment to certain flints 

 which are the exact converse of those concerning which I spoke at 

 the outset of my first paper. Those are decided to be fashioned 

 by man. These, although seeming to show plain signs of man's 

 work, are by some thought to be naturally or accidentally shaped. 

 There is -for instance one, presented by the Rev. 0. P. Cambridge, 

 which looks, and by many is believed, really to be a whetstone, 

 showing palpable traces of hard work done on it. Yet, considering 

 that flint is a most unsuitable stone for grinding on it either 

 another flint or metal, it is doubtful whether these marks are not 

 natural. Again, there is a flint, presented by Dr. Smart, on which 

 are marked the eyes, nose, and mouth of a man. Yet these are 

 pronounced by a high authority to be produced accidentally. Dr. 

 Smart has also presented a remarkable holed flint which, whether 

 unworked or partially worked, he believes to have been a weapon, 

 a sort of knuckle-duster. This, by the way, he believes to have 

 been the use of some of the large and slightly worked flints, called 

 by some mattocks, and referred to in my first paper. 



To come now to the closing section of this paper, I would 

 say that, in including things made of materials not technically 

 classed as stone, I am following Evans' handbook. Amber, 

 for instance, he touches on. But that treatise was written 

 before Mr. Cunnington's great find in Clandown Barrow. Nor 

 must I do more than allude to it, as it will make an important 

 feature in his book. Suffice it to say that that barrow produced, 

 not only the rare kind of vessel called an incense-burner, and a 

 thin plate of the purest gold, but also the greater part of a most 

 beautiful amber cup, which to my eye looks like Greek work ; and, 

 further, a gold adorned jet head of a staff or sceptre. The latter is 

 unique, and the cup all but so. The only other amber cup recorded 

 was found near Brighton, and is of rude make. I would refer 

 those who have access to Evans' handbook to his suggestion 

 respecting a shale cup much like our amber one. He thinks that 

 it was made, handle notwithstanding, on a pole lathe. To my eye 



