On Neolithic Flints below the present surface at Dinton. 89 



shaping shafts, spits, and pins, are exceedingly common. Most 

 abundant of all are the so-called scrapers, varying considerably in 

 form and probably in use. Many of these are very well chipped, 

 with a deep obtuse edge formed by a multitude of small facets. 

 Many are long-shaped, with notches on the sides as if for tying them 

 to handles. If the chief use of these tools was the scraping of skins, 

 their widely-scattered abundance suggests that each animal was 

 flayed and its skin dressed as it was taken. Skins and the means 

 of preparing them must, of course, have been in very great demand 

 before the invention of woven clothing. 



