A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE 
pended upon them as was necessary. The man who made the original 
of fig. 34 could have made the original of fig. 33 had he felt so disposed. 
The rude specimen doubtlessly possesses primitive characters, but the man 
who made it was not more primitive than the man who made the elab- 
orately worked implement. 
An example of a scraper is illustrated in fig. 35; and a smaller, finer, 
and more elaborate specimen in 
fig. 36. Both these have a well 
marked bulb of percussion on 
the plain side. 
A rude and remarkable 
palzolithic implement, roughly 
hewn from a massive bulbed 
flake of Hertfordshire conglo- 
merate, is illustrated in fig. 37. 
It is faintly ochreous and lustrous, and very different in appearance 
as regards colour from newly broken conglomerate. It was found in an 
excavation of contorted drift on Caddington Common. It appears to be an 
attempt at an implement of the well known hump-backed form, rather 
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Fic. 37. 
than a finished tool, and perhaps owing to the highly intractable nature of 
the stone it was left in a roughly hewn state. A flake of Hertfordshire 
conglomerate, found in a field near by, is illustrated in fig. 38, and two 
other paleolithic flakes of the same material have been procured from 
Caddington.’ 
THE NEOLITHIC AGE 
There appears to have been a gap of unknown centuries between 
the departure of palzolithic man from Britain and the arrival of his 
Iberian, non-Aryan, neolithic successor. The lapse of time was sufh- 
ciently long to allow of the covering up of such of man’s implements 
1 All the examples of palzolithic implements illustrated in this article, with the exception of one 
or two given to Sir John Evans, have been presented to the British Museum. 
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