150 ETON NATURE-STUDY 



RELICS OF EARLY MAN 



A branch of field work to which we have not previously alluded, 

 is the hunting for and consideration of the relics of pre-historic man. 

 The implements roughly chipped or carefully fashioned and polished 

 which the primitive inhabitants of this country left behind them, 

 form an interesting chapter in the Natural History of Man. Very 

 many of the " flakes," scrapers and axes can be found on the surface 

 of the ground during the course of rambles in the places where they 

 occur. Other specimens may be dug out of river gravels, and others 

 again discovered in caves, though it is not every day that oppor- 

 tunities for exploring new places of the latter kind present them- 

 selves. 



