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hands ; therefore the implement is of post-glacial age, otherwise the 
human and non-human work would be equally striated. Excellent 
examples of Bedford implements with the original crust striated and the 
worked parts not striated may be seen in the British Museum. 
Implements of the largest size and greatest beauty have been found 
in the Bedford gravels. They vary greatly in age ; some of the newer 
are sharp and lustrous, and white or yellow in colour ; others and older, 
abraded, dull and brown. Some again are highly finished, others are 
very rude. It is remarkable that ovate or roundish implements are rare 
at Bedford, the prevailing type being pointed. In the south of the 
county, however, pointed implements are rare and ovate common. 
Bedford implements are commonly full of natural fractures made by 
the pressure of other stones in the gravel bed, so that they are frequently 
cracked through whilst still zz stv, and drop in pieces as soon as disturbed. 
Absolutely perfect examples are therefore not very common, whilst pieces 
such as butts, points or fragments from the bodies or sides of implements 
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are quite common in the excavated heaps of gravel in the pits or by the 
roadsides, 
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