118 The Flint Implements of Bemerton and Milford Hill. 



(Plan I.) at Bemerton. This gravel is spread over a considerable 

 area, and it may be mentioned that wherever it has been excavated 

 these implements have appeared. 



Those discovered at Bemerton came principally from a gravel pit 

 about a mile-and-a-half on the Wilton Road, on the right-hand 

 side, near the railway bridge, and about three hundred yards up a 

 lane, on the left-hand side, leading to the cemetery in the Devizes 

 Road. The pit is in a field about ninety yards from the lane (Plan I.). 

 Altogether fifty specimens have been obtained from this locality, 

 and, with the exception of two found in digging the Fisherton 

 reservoir, five at Highfield, five in Mr. Charles Finch's field, and 

 three from the Fisherton brick earth (two of them Neolithic), they 

 have all come from the gravel pit represented on Plan I. 



On April 27th, 1864, 1 Dr. Blackmore made a further discovery 

 of implements in the gravel then being excavated at Milford Hill 

 (Plan II.), and from the above date to the present time they have 

 come to light in considerable quantities. 



Mr. James Brown informed me that he obtained over twenty 

 examples from the excavation at No. 3 (Plan II.), now the Godolphin 

 School. Three more were afterwards procured in levelling the 

 garden, one of which the writer possesses. Mr. James Brown has 

 an implement found in digging a trench for gas pipes in the London 

 Road, close to Elm Grove. 



In October of the present year (1878) a flint tool was brought to 

 the writer, dug from a pit in Culver Street, Salisbury, at a still 

 lower level — one of the lowest at which they have hitherto appeared. 



The first specimen that came into the writer's possession was 

 obtained from a workman in June, 1865, and many others have been 

 found there (Milford Hill) from time to time up to the present 

 date. The implement mentioned above is small and of oval form 

 with the surface highly polished, 



From 1865 till the latter end of 1873 there was little (if any) 

 excavation in progress. 



About the latter half of the year 1873 to nearly the end of 1876 



1 " Flint Chips," by E. T. Stevens, p. 47. 



