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Romans had not invaded Britain, nor had the people who 
introduced metal into this island arrived on this shore ; and 
if there could have been a doubt of the reality of the tools 
(which I described to you in my former Paper) having been 
used by a people who lived before metal had been introduced, 
the primitive character of the weapons which I have since 
found removes every doubt of the fact, and I now expect 
that I shall be believed to have found distinct evidence of 
three tribes who inhabited Bridlington at an age at least as 
early as the erection of the stone circles and avenues at 
Avebury, and before the existence of Stonehenge. 
HOUSEHOLD IMPLEMENTS. 
Prom the evidence of the caves and the drift, flint knives 
may be considered to be the invention of our antediluvian 
forefathers ; we cannot, therefore, feel surprised that wherever 
the descendants of Noah have existed in this new world, we 
find a great number of knives : but those which I have seen 
of antediluvian type may be classed under the head of flakes. 
The aborigines at Bridlington exerted their inventive or 
imitative genius quite as much in these useful household 
implements, as they did in their weapons. I have found ten 
distinct patterns of knives there, including flakes, made of 
various sizes, for different purposes ; some several inches long, 
and strong enough to divide the joints, or strip off the skin 
of an animal ; and others exceedingly small, as if they could 
be of no service but for a woman to sever her thread with, as 
a substitute for scissors. Several of the blades of these 
knives do not materially differ, except in length, from those 
which are still made in steel. Some have a neck formed at 
the end of the blade, to tie a loose thong of leather round, to 
suspend to a girdle, to prevent their being lost. Even those 
which are known as flakes, because they are thin and were 
evidently struck off a core at one blow, were first intentionally 
