By William Govrtand, F.S.A., F.I.C. 



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of three implements in Class L, two of compact sarsen, and one of 

 argillaceous sandstone) are of flint, and nearly all from their forms 

 have been used by grasping them in the hand without the inter- 

 vention of a haft or shaft. As to their use, they were not suitable 

 for shaping or dressing the harder sarsen or the diabase rocks, as 

 flint is much too brittle a material for that purpose. But for 

 dressing the softer sarsens and especially the more easily worked 

 fissile stones, they were perfectly adapted, and were doubtless used 

 for that purpose. Nearly all bear evidence of extremely rough 

 usage, their edges being jagged and broken, just as we should 

 expect to find after such rough employment. Moreover, the severe 

 fractures which some exhibit could only be produced by violent 

 contact with other stones. The larger tools may also have served 

 to excavate the chalk where too hard for the deer's horn picks, and 

 others for the general needs of savage life. 



All, notwithstanding their rudeness, are undoubtedly finished 

 implements which have been in actual use, and not implements 

 which have been discarded in the process of manufacture. 



Similar flint implements were found at Cissbury. 1 by the late 

 General Pitt-Eivers ; at Grime's Graves, 2 near Brandon, Norfolk, 

 by Canon Green well ; and at Stourpaine, near Blandford, Dorset, 

 by Mr. Durclen. 



If we now compare the Stonehenge implements of the above 

 classes with these it will be seen that many are very closely allied 

 to them in form and some are practically counterparts. 



The Cissbury implements, of which a great many were found, 

 were attributed by General Pitt-Rivers " to the Stone Age or at 

 any rate to the age of the flint manufacture." The fauna associated 

 with them was undoubtedly neolithic. 



The implements from Grime's Graves were found in the field 

 immediately adjoining to the pits, and according to Canon Greenwell 

 " in them we have the result, to some extent, of the operations of 

 the people who quarried the flint in the so-called " Graves." Tn 



1 ArcJioeologia, xlii., 53, et seq. 

 2 Journal of the Ethnological Society of London, 2nd series, ii., 419, et seq. 



