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less chipped to form. Many are irregularly chipped to no definite 

 pattern ; others are very carefully chipped to special patterns. One 

 of these patterns is the flat, tanged flake, made by chipping the 

 end bulb so as to form a tang or handle. This must have been 

 a recognised pattern, because it is found in several places, such as 

 Toomebridge, Ballintoy, Ballygally, Islandmagee, Larne, Belfast, 

 &c, and, like the cores, the tanged flakes are invariably of the same 

 lithological character as the common flint flakes with which they 

 are generally found. 



The "scraper" — which has such a wide geographical distribu- 

 tion — is another form found very commonly among the wrought 

 flints of Antrim and Down. A large number of examples occur almost 

 identical with the forms so common in England, France, and 

 Belgium. Some of the elongated forms from near Belfast can 

 scarcely be distinguished from those taken from the ossiferous caves 

 in the south of France. The " scraper," like the tanged flake and 

 core, is found in Antrim and Down, wherever the flint flakes are 

 common. Indeed, the u scrapers" show by the bulb of percussion 

 and other features that they were made out of the ordinary flakes. 

 The best examples of scrapers have been found at Ballintoy, Bann- 

 mouth, Ballygally, "The Plains," Belfast; Toombridge, &c. Ex- 

 amples of worked or chipped flakes are found graduating from the 

 simplest form up to the very best type of finely-chipped arrow- 

 heads, all showing that the characteristic flint flake was the result 

 and object of special manipulative skill. 



Roughly- chipped, unpolished flint celts, having all the charac- 

 teristics of extreme age, are also found in every locality where flakes 

 are abundant. They are usually small — from three to six inches 

 long — highly porcelainous, and rounded by age. The best examples 

 are from Holywood, Ballintoy, Carnlough, Islandmagee, Larne, and 

 " The Plains," Belfast. 



The ordinary polished stone celts are also very frequently found 



in connection with flint flakes, particularly at Belfast, Ballintoy, 



Islandmagee, and Toomebridge. At the latter place they abound 



Thus we have distributed in abundance over Antrim and Down, 



