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details. The uses to which weapons such as these were put 
readily suggest themselves. They were adapted to purposes 
both domestic and militant, for the clearing away of the charred 
wood when canoe making, the skinning of animals and the 
felling of trees, as well as for defence and offence in tribal wars. 
The records of these implements that have been forthcoming 
from the south of the county are not so numerous as those from 
the north. But this is because fewer observers have been 
at work on the subject; and I have no doubt but that, 
when greater interest is taken in these hoary relics of Lincoln- 
shire’s past by our South Lincolnshire folk, the superficial beds 
of that part of the county will render quite as good an account 
of themselves as those of the north have done. 
hen engaged on the geology of South Lincolnshire, Mr. 
Skertchley Dies some attention to prehistoric remains, and he 
has recorded the finding of an unsymmetrical, rudely-chipped 
arrow head in the peat beds at Bourne; and also of two celts, 
the one at Edenham, the other at Kaye’s Bridge. Both have 
been fashioned out of blocks of hornstone that had been obtained 
from the glacial beds in the neighbourhood, and both are neatly 
polished. 
A polished flint celt measuring 54 inches x 1% inches at 
the butt and 2% inches at the cutting edge was found at Digby, 
near Billinghay ; and a finely-chipped arrow head was obtained 
from the clay at Chatteris. I have many other records and 
specimens; but these examples serve to indicate the general 
character of the implements and their distribution over the 
county. They do not, however, seem to occur in the same 
abundance in Lincolnshire as in — counties. That 
Lincolnshire, with its exceptional advantages as a place for 
settlement seule have been less thickly ‘popabnted than, say, 
Yorkshire, would be remarkable, and it is not therefore 
improbable see Nn the present inhabitants of the county 
have becom more familiar with these relics and have learnt 
to apie ce girs: they see them, the number of records 
of the handicraft of Lincolnshire’s Neolithic folk will be greatly 
increased. 
The celts and arrow heads indicate that the old oe 
Were hunters; there are also evidences to show that they 
Were fishers. Surrounded as their settlements were by the 
Fenland and the Carrland lakes and morasses, some means 
had to be devised to enable them to cross these wastes 
of water. They made boats ; and in the old forests and peat 
beds the remains of many of these have been preserved to this 
day. The most remarkable are those that have been found 
May 1898. 
