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chipped into form, as if intended for insertion also into the 
end of an arrow, and probably constructed to allow of its 
being reversed if one point was broken ; a few slightly 
hemispherical masses of flint, rudely chipped into shape, and 
probably intended as sling stones ; several semi-circular 
implements, also carefully chipped into form, which Mr. 
Evans considers as having been scrapers, from the circum- 
stance that amongst the Esquimaux of the present day 
implements of precisely similar character are still used for 
scraping the skins of animals. Whatever other use these 
may have had, they appear to have been in general request, 
as we find them in different parts of Britain worked into one 
uniform pattern. There are also several flints of different 
sizes, of a rather singular shape, and so strongly resembling 
gun flints that I was at first doubtful as to their authenticity.* 
In an able and interesting lecture, however, delivered by my 
friend Mr. Evans at the opening of the Blackburn Museum, 
“ On Man, and his earliest known Works,” he states that 
Egyptian arrows have been found tipped with small arrow- 
heads of flint, in form much resembling gun flints ; again, 
that in the account of the army of Xerxes, Herodotus 
mentions the Ethiopians as having long bows and short 
arrows, with sharp stones instead of iron for points; and 
also that flint arrow-heads have been found in Greece, on the 
field of Marathon (whose date would be b.c. 490), and may, 
therefore, have been of a similar form, which is well adapted 
for inserting between the split end of an arrow, and then 
held in position by a tight band. 
The flints now under consideration have all been picked 
up by the boys at the Reformatory while employed in 
digging the ground, and who would have thrown them 
away but for the accidental circumstance that one of them 
having been seen by Mr. Twigg, the indefatigable super- 
See Plate. 
