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suggested some gravel pits near Grenelle at Paris, as being, 

 from their position and appearance, likely places to contain 

 flint implements. M. Gosse, of Geneva, has actually found 

 flint implements in these pits, being the first discovery 

 of this nature in the valley of the Seine.* In that of 

 the Oise, a small hatchet has been found by M. Peigne 

 Delacourt, at Precy, near Creil. 



Nor have these discoveries been confined to France. There 

 has long been in the British Museum a rude stone weapon, 

 described as follows : " No. 246. A British weapon, found 

 with elephant's tooth, opposite to black Mary's, near Grayes 

 inn lane. Conyers. It is a large black flint, shaped into the 

 figure of a spear's point." Mr. Evans tells us, moreover, 

 (I.e. p. 22) " that a rude engraving of it illustrates a letter 

 on the Antiquities of London, by Mr. Bagford, dated 

 1715, printed in Hearne's edition of Leland's Collectanea, 

 vol. i. 6, p. Ixiii. From his account it seems to have been 

 found with a skeleton of an elephant in the presence 

 of Mr. Conyers." This most interesting weapon agrees 

 exactly with some of those jbund in the valley of the 

 Somme. 



Mr. Evans, on his return from Abbeville, observed in the 

 museum belonging to the Society of Antiquaries, some speci- 

 mens exactly like those in the collection of M. Boucher de 

 Perthes. On examination, it proved that they had been pre- 

 sented by Mr. Frere, who found them with bones of extinct 

 animals in a gravel pit at Hoxne in Suffolk, and had well 

 described and figured them in the Archaeologia for the year 

 1800. This communication is of so much interest that I 



* M. L' Abbe Cocbet states (I.e. p. 8) mistake about tbese specimens ; at least 



tbat similar weapons bave been found M. Poucbet, who received us at Rouen 



at Sotteville, near Rouen, and are de- witb tbe greatest courtesy, was quite 



posited in tbe Musee d' Antiques, unaware of any sucb discovery, 

 Tbere seems, bowever, to be some 



