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In addition to the cores and flakes, however, a number of 

 complete and well-hnished neohthic implements have been 

 found, which had been accidentally lost, or for some other 

 reason had been left behind. Amongst them are some types 

 which are quite peculiar to the district, and, except in a few 

 isolated instances, are not found in any other part of the 

 country. 



The commonest form of implement found was the oval or 

 pear-shaped 'scraper' (Plate XIII., figs. 1-4); the circular form , 

 which occurs in thousands on the wolds to the west, being only 

 occasionally met with near Bridlington, and, so far, not at all on 

 the sites of these workshops. The long scrapers average about 

 two or two and a half inches in length, by about one and a quarter 

 inches in breadth. One side is almost always flat, just as struck 

 from the nodule, and shews no secondary chippings. The 

 opposite side however, exhibits evidence of careful workman- 

 ship. Usually the end opposite the ' bulb of percussion ' 

 (made in striking the flake from the block) is semi-circular in 

 form, and rendered sharp by many small secondary flakings. 

 skilfully made. In addition, one of the long edges is usually 

 flaked in the same way. These are thought by some authorities 

 to have been used for striking lights, after the manner of the 

 flint and steel of our great-grandfathers' days. By others they 

 are considered to have been used for scraping the fat, etc., from 

 the skins of animals. Probably the former view is the more 

 correct. 



Another type of weapon, which is by no means uncommon, is 

 not so easy to account for, unless it has been used for making or 

 straightening arrow and spear shafts (figs. 5 and 6) . These vary 

 in shape, but are usually portions of large, well-struck triangular 

 flakes, the ends of which have been broken away. At first they 

 may easily be passed over as ordinary ' wasters,' but a closer ex- 

 amination reveals the fact that at the ends, or sides, or both, there 

 is a small semi-circular notch, with innumerable small flakings 

 from one side only, thus leaving a sharp cutting edge, just such 

 as would be necessary for working an arrow shaft. Of this 

 particular type of implement (which has not hitherto received 

 the attention it deserves), quite a number have been obtained. 

 Of the barbed arrow heads which have been found in such 

 numbers in the Driffield and Timber neighbourhoods, not a 

 trace has been seen, though more or less complete arrow points 

 and small spear heads of the lanceolate or leaf-shaped type, have 



1910 Aug. I. 



