278 EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. [CHAP. vin. 



cracks so as to prevent the roof from standing firm. It 

 was a most impressive sight, and one never to be for- 

 gotten, to look, after a lapse it may be of 3000 years, 

 upon a piece of work unfinished, with the tools of the 

 workmen still lying where they had been placed so 

 many centuries ago. Between the picks was the skull 

 of a bird, but none of the other bones. These two picks, 

 as was the case with many of those found elsewhere, had 

 upon them an incrustation of chalk, the surface of which 

 bore the impression of the workmen's fingers, the print 

 of the skin being most apparent. This had been caused 

 by the chalk with which the workmen's hands became 

 coated being transferred to the handle of the pick/' 



In one of the pits was a large accumulation of the 

 bones of animals, which were for the most part broken 

 for the sake of their marrow, of the Celtic short-horn, the 

 sheep or goat, the horse, the pig, and the dog. The bones 

 of the short-horns belonged, with scarcely an exception, 

 to young calves, while those of the dog belonged to 

 aged animals, which were eaten by their masters after 

 having become too old for hunting. 



The Flint Implement Manufactory at Cissbury. 



Another example of flint-mining on a large scale 

 is offered by the shafts and galleries at Cissbury/ a 

 camp on a commanding position of the South Downs, 

 about three miles from Worthing, explored by General 

 Lane Fox, 2 Mr. Ernest Willett, and others. The. surface 

 of the ground in and around the circular depressions (see 

 Fig. 102) is covered by innumerable splinters and by 



1 Op. cit. p. 427. 

 2 " Hill Forts of Sussex," Archceologia, xlii. 1869. 



