EARLY MAN 
who were capable of making and did make the finest and most regularly- 
shaped tools. 
In the brick-earth deposits scrapers are fairly common. A fine, 
elaborately worked example is shown in fig. 23 ; one with less work is 
illustrated in fig. 24. A few finely-worked, small implements and lance-like 
forms, some only 2 inches in length, have been found. Various forms of 
implements of erratic shape and some of uncertain use occur. One of these 
is illustrated in fig. 25. Flints of this class were possibly throw-stones or 
Fic. 25. 
missiles ; the one illustrated weighs 64 0z. Several other specimens and 
some more symmetrical have been found. A core from Caddington is 
shown in fig. 26 for comparison. 
At Caddington the surfaces upon which the palzolithic folk lived 
are at times clearly visible on the sides of excavations, sometimes merely as a 
line of somewhat different colour from the mass of brick-earth. On a line 
of this sort have been found several implements without flakes or any other 
stones. At other times there have been many flakes, with implements 
finished and unfinished, broken examples, failures, cores, flakes and blocks 
of selected flints approximating in shape, and suitable for implements, all 
in the position in which they were left by the implement makers. It was 
possible to see, by careful observation of the surrounding litter of flakes, 
the places which the tool makers actually occupied while manufacturing 
implements. Certain of the flakes had been trodden upon and broken, but 
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