Cooke: Neolithic Life in Lincolnshire. 79 
Arrow-heads are everywhere abundant from Croxby to Scotton. 
The Lincolnshire weapons may be broadly divided into three 
classes, according to their shapes, viz., leaf-shaped, lozenge- 
shaped, and barbed and tanged. The tang indicates attachment 
to a shaft, and therefore determines its purpose; but the mode 
of attachment of the untanged is not so obvious. It is probable, 
however, that they were affixed with bitumen, or a similar cement. 
At Brumby and Croxby considerable numbers of scrapers 
have been found by various collectors. These scrapers are 
the simplest form of implement that the Neoliths made. They 
were usually fashioned out of a well-formed flint-flake, which 
was worked at one extremity to a convex edge, and were 
either manipulated with the hand or were inserted in a handle, 
and used to scrape and dress skins and to peel the bark 
from trees. One of the scrapers from Croxby Warren has 
on its surface two artificially-made pits or depressions, the 
raison ae tre for which is not obvious. They are very similar 
to the depressions in the so-called ‘cup-stones’ that have 
been found in localities in England, Scotland, and America, 
but are very much smaller. Dr. Rann, who has taken up the 
study of these remarkable efforts at sculpture, and has published | 
a monograph on the subject, assigns to them a religious rather 
than a utilitarian character. This specimen is now in the 
collection of Mr. E. Brown, of Scunthorpe. 
From the same locality Mr. Brown obtained a small flint 
saw, the cutting edge of which has been formed by the removal of 
a series of minute bulbs of flint, and, considering the brittleness 
of the material, the regularity of the serrations is remarkable. 
This Lincolnshire implement offers many resemblances to the 
small, fragile flint saws that have been found in Leicestershire, 
and in the Neolithic tumuli of Denmark ; but it is not equal to 
these either in design or finish. Another class of implement 
that is very common at Brumby and Croxby, is that known as 
drills. They are narrow pointed flint-flakes, that widen rapidly 
towards the base, and vary from one inch to three inches in 
length. It is supposed that they were intended for drilling holes 
in flint, bone, wood, and skins; and it was probably with imple- 
ments of this description that the pit-like depressions in the 
mic already alluded to were made. 
sand-warrens around Brigg, Broughton, Twigmoor, 
Gictigc oe: Caenby, and Manton are specially prolific in the 
smaller flint tools; and from the cachés of flakes and implements 
that here and Miers occur, it is evident that many of these 
localities once served as permanent sites for the manufacture of 
‘Stone weapons. 
March 1808, 
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