The Flint Tools of North Devon. 357 



if the axiom of Bacon is true of nature — " Nihil facit per 

 solium" — it is true also of the progress of Prsehistoric man ? 

 The drift and alluvium of Europe has, comparatively speaking, 

 been but little explored; and no doubt new discoveries, or 

 further investigations into some of those which have been 

 made already, will throw more light on a subject interesting 

 alike to the geologist and antiquary, the ethnologist and 

 divine. 



Plates I. and II. represent flint flakes from Baggy Point, 

 drawn (full size) from specimens in my collection. The reader 

 may see at a glance that they resolve themselves into three 

 distinct forms or types, although between these forms there 

 are numerous gradations, caused by the uncertain character of 

 the material of which they are made. 



EEFEEENCES TO THE PLATES. 



Plate I., Figs. 1—6 ; and Plate II., Figs. 1—4.— Tools of 

 the first type. Flakes or knives usually of the same width 

 near the top, as they are at the bottom. 



Plate L, Figs. 7—9 ; and Plate II., Figs. 5— 8.— Second 

 type. Arrow-head shaped weapons, which sharpen to a point 

 more or less gradually from their base. 



Plate I., Figs. 10—11 ; and Plate II., Figs. 9— 11.— Third 

 type. Oval implements with a cutting edge all round, or 

 nearly so. 



Plate I., Fig. 12. — The flat side of a calcined flake. 



Plate I., Fig. 13. — Small core, from off which flakes have 

 been struck. 



