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found these two kinds of implements together, as if they had 
been used by the same person. 
The sharp points are in some instances nothing more than 
carefully cut points of flint, about an inch long ; others are 
short points projecting from pieces of flint of no definite 
form, whilst others are projecting points from the centre, or 
at one angle of a square piece of flint ; but all indicate by 
their form that the point has been the only object for which 
these implements were made, and as it would require such a 
point to make holes in skins to pass a thread of any kind 
through them, I think the most natural use for which these 
points could have been applied is the one that I have 
assigned. 
The seam pressers are made in a very definite shape. 
They are all flat pieces of flint on the under surface, and 
rounded on the upper ; and there is a handle to most of them, 
which is formed by chipping the flint away, to leave a neck, 
dividing the handle from the body of the tool. I have a 
great many specimens of them, with very ' little variation of 
form. 
FISHING. 
The fish that abounded in Bridlington Bay must always 
have been a good source of supply of food for the inhabitants, 
and it is natural that various means should have been 
adopted for catching them. I have found many fishing- 
hooks of different sizes, but the shape of them is not exactly 
similar: some are very rough specimens, but when covered 
by a bait they were probably found efficient for the purpose ; 
others are carefully cut, and appear to be as well adapted for 
holding large fish as any that are manufactured of fine steel. 
Great skill in the art of chipping flint into form is exhibited 
in the curved and rounded hooks, but to avoid the difficulty 
that most persons must have experienced to produce a perfect 
shape, a method of cutting the flint at first flat, and then 
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