A HISTORY OF SUSSEX 



the simply chipped flakes, etc., found in abundance at Lough Neagh, 

 Ireland. An interesting group of such flakes was found by the writer 

 on the side of one of the mounds at Cissbury, left practically as they 

 had been chipped off by their neolithic maker long ago. The removal 

 of the earth by which they had so long been covered was caused by 

 the burrowing of rabbits, which are working so much damage to what 

 is unquestionably the finest camp in Sussex. The position of the 

 flint flakes and chips upon the mound proves that the earthworks were 

 completed during the Neolithic Age. 



A collection of typical Cissbury implements together with mining 

 tools, such as rude picks made of antlers of the red deer ; blade bones 

 of ox, probably used as shovels ; and lamp made of hollowed-out mass 

 of chalk, may now be seen in the British Museum. Numerous other 

 examples of stone implements from the flint mines at Cissbury have been 

 placed in the museums at Lewes and Brighton, and others are in 

 private collections. The large numbers of implements found, point to 

 extensive and long-continued operations, and there is reason to believe 

 that the combined flint-mining and implement-making industries carried 

 on at Cissbury were of equal importance to those at Grimes' Graves, 

 Weeting, Norfolk. 



Details of individual finds as far as possible will be given in the 

 index at the end of this article, but attention may be directed to the 

 following more remarkable features of neolithic antiquities in Sussex : 

 (i) A group of eight chipped celts found in 1803 at Clayton Hill; 

 (2) a chipped celt fixed in its wooden handle discovered at Mitchdean, 

 East Dean ; (3) minute implements of flint found in association with 

 other implements of regular neolithic character and later pottery, at 

 the rock-shelters at Hastings ; (4) numerous roughly chipped celts or 

 agricultural tools found in various parts of the county and now placed 

 in the museums at Lewes, Brighton, Hastings, etc. ; (5) numerous 

 hollow or concave scrapers found near Brighton and Eastbourne ; (6) 

 numerous celts which have been thoroughly rounded by grinding, found 

 in the Eastbourne and Beachy Head district ; and (7) the large number 

 of varieties of stone employed for implement making, including Sussex 

 iron-stone, granite, quartzite and diorite. 



The megalithic remains of Sussex appear to be very scanty. There 

 is said once to have been a circle of stones at Goldstone Bottom, near 

 the Brighton Waterworks, which has since been destroyed, and other 

 remains, possibly of the Neolithic Age, are mentioned in the section on 

 Ancient Earthworks. 



The Bronze Age 



The introduction of metal for the purposes of every-day life marks 

 a very important and decided step in prehistoric progress and culture. 

 The available evidence goes to show that there was not here, as in some 

 parts of the European continent, an age of copper. We seem rather 

 to have passed from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age direct. It may be 

 inferred that the art of working metal was not introduced into Britain 



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