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objects in stone and in bone. Even the antiquities found in 
the cave deposits of France have not entirely escaped. Ancient 
stone implements have been socketed into ancient bones, so as 
to give them handles, and the result has been modern forgeries 
composed of genuine antiques. Even amongst the most ancient 
relics of human workmanship with which we are acquainted — 
the flint implements found in the valley- gravels of England and 
France — the forger has been at work ; and Icklingham in 
Suffolk, and Amiens and Abbeville in France, have each pro- 
duced their own schools of counterfeiters. The forged flint 
implements from Amiens''^ are usually of the long spear-head 
type ; those from Abbeville f are generally flatter, with a cutting 
edge all round, and ovato-lanceolate in form ; those from 
Icklingham X are usually sharply pointed, flat on one side and 
convex on the other. Of course there are varieties of form, but 
at all these places they are usually produced for sale enveloped 
in some clayey matrix, so as to conceal the character of their 
surface, unless some portion of an ancient surface of flint has 
been left in chipping them out, in which case the old surface § is 
sometimes wiped clean, and the new left covered with mud. It 
is only after a thorough washing that they appear in their true 
colours. 
" There is generally something in the form of the recent 
forgeries which strikes the practised eye ; the method of chip- 
ping is different, the angles between the different facets sharper, 
and the edge also sharper, than is usual with genuine specimens. 
The surface is commonly dull and lustreless ; and if a portion be 
chipped off there is no perceptible difference between the recent 
fracture and the rest of the surface." 
Naturally Fractured Flints. 
The specimens Nos. 33 to 56, Case D 3, are naturally frac- 
* See Case D 3, Tablets i, 10, 14, and 21 to 24, 
+ See Case D 3, Tablets 3, and 6 to 8. Upon Tablet 30 is a clumsy 
forgery made by the workmen at Porte Marcade. Nos, 2 and 4, Case D 3, 
are forgeries made by the workmen near Paris ; as are also the forgeries of 
neolithic types, Nos. 2 and 13, Case D 2. 
X See Case D 3, Tablet 15, and Case D 2, Tablets 24 and 25. No forgeries 
have hitherto been attempted by the Salisbury workmen. 
§ The forgery upon Tablet 19, Case D 3, shows both old and new surface ; 
it is a naturally fractured flint improved by the forger. A patch of old crust 
(patina) is to be seen on No. 24, Case D 3. 
