78 Cooke: Neolithic Life in Lincolnshtre. 
But what is wanting in Palzolithic remains is compensated 
for in the abundance of relics that the races of the Neolithic or 
later Stone Age have left scattered over the county. The 
Paleolithic preflecessors. They practised rude arts, erected 
roughly-formed monuments, and attained to the dignity of 
clothing. A characteristic feature of the Neolithic period is the — 
perfected methods employed in manufacturing stone implements 
for war and the chase. All of the Lincolnshire weapons are — 
In the light of modern discovery and scientific investigation, 
both anthropologists and comparative anatomists agree in 
declaring that the two peoples were quite distinct, and that 
iatus exists between the occupation of England by 
them, such as can only be measured by an enormous term 
the other animals of the period that now no longer exist, or they 
may have followed the Arctic animals in their migrations to the 
north. They went as mysteriously as they came, and as soon aS 
these areas were again rendered habitable by the recession of — 
the ice-fields, the Neolithic people came and took up undisputed 
possession. 
In Lincolnshire relics of early man have been found dis- — 
tributed more or less all over the county, but the district in 
which they specially abound is that which is occupied by the lines 
of sand-hills that flank the eastern slopes of the Trent and the 
Ancholme basins. These tracts are covered with extensive 
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Scotton, Manton, and Scunthorpe-+-have been drifted into © 
dunes by the action of the wind. The reason why these sand- 
hills should have been chosen by the Neolithic people as places — 
for settlement is evident. The comparative dryness, the eleva- — 
tion above the surrounding fen-land, and the manner in which 
they were protected on all sides from attacks, rendered them | 
particularly suitable and desirable for this purpose. From 
these dunes and warrens a fairly complete and representative 
set of Neolithic weapons has been obtained. They include 
arrow-heads of various patterns, flint saws, knives, scrapers, 
borers, awls, drills, perforated hammer heads, querns, hoes, an 
material that has generally been used for the manu- — 
facture of these implements is flint; but hornstone, and basalt — 
boulders from the _— beds have-aléo been jane 3 ale z 
