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Rei\ 0. Fislier — Works of Prehistoric Man. 



being distinct. It was dredged up at a spot called the Wallet, ofp 

 Clacton, in dredging for cement stone, and was in the possession of 

 Dr. Bree, of Colchester. Ctjrma Jluminalis occurs in the Pleistocene 

 cliff at Clacton, which seems to correlate the deposit with the 

 Barnwell gravel. 



Fig. 3. Piece of red ochre cut into shape for marking lines, from Grantchester. 

 Length, 1 inch ; width, J inch ; | inch in thickness at butt end. 



Probably in these cases the antlers were cut off for use, and the 

 bases thrown away. I have not seen any fossil antler. We know 

 that the antlers of red deer were used as picks by Neolithic man, 

 because they have been found in the flint-mines at Grime's Graves 

 near Brandon. What saw did these ancient people possess? That it 

 was not very efficient is shown by the marks it has left, and they 

 seem to have saved themselves the trouble of sawing as soon as the 

 object could be broken. 



Fig. 4. 



Cut fragment of bone from Bedfordshire, 

 natural size. 



Reduced to two-thirds 



6. At one time, when I was digging for bones in the gravel at 

 Barrington,^ I found two round stones of the same size near one 

 another. One of them was a flint nodule, the other of a different 

 rock. They attracted my attention at the moment, but their possible 



1 Q.J.G.S., vol. XXXV, pp. 670-7, 1879. 



