CHAP, viii.] FLINT IMPLEMENTS AT CISSBURY. 



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implements in every stage of manufacture, from the 

 nodule of flint fresh out of the chalk, spoilt by an un- 



FIG. 102. Cissbury Camp. E, M, L, K, G, N, Mine-shafts. 



lucky blow, to the article nearly finished and accidentally 

 broken. In some places Mr. Ernest Willett and myself 

 remarked, in 1874, little heaps of small splinters which 

 marked the places where the finer work was carried on, 

 and in some of these were the two halves of the broken 

 implements, just as they had been tossed aside by the 

 workmen. 



It was scarcely possible to pick these broken imple- 

 ments up and put them together without a keen feeling 

 of the changes which had happened since they had been 

 broken the strange chance which led to their discovery. 

 The Neolithic stage of civilisation had been superseded 

 by that of Bronze ; that in its turn by the age of Iron ; 

 then after an interval, the length of which we know not, 



