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ON THE FLINT IMPLEMENTS AND WEAPONS FOUND AT 
BRIDLINGTON. BY JOHN FFObKS, ESQ. 
The pre-historic history of Britain can only be illustrated 
by means of an extensive collection of ancient relics, carefully 
examined and arranged, and by the facts which they disclose 
being received with unprejudiced judgment ; but the extent 
of our researches must not be considered as bounded by the 
stone circle and the barrow: there are other resources of 
equal extent and value, if not far greater, at our command. 
One of these is a collection of the various weapons and 
implements left by the inhabitants in the Ancient British 
villages. These may be gathered up, with all their circum- 
stantial information attached to them, as little affected by 
time as the deposits in the tombs, if done with discretion 
and care. The object of this Paper is to relate discoveries of 
this kind at Bridlington, in this county; but before doing so, 
I wish to point out, very briefly, the connection which exists 
between various sources of information which contribute their 
quota to increase our knowledge of the earliest inhabitants. 
Yorkshire appears to have been peopled as soon as any part 
of the island, and the immigrants who first set foot upon the 
shore have left memorials of the event, which are still visible 
in the foundations of their huts and the implements they 
used ; and I may say they communicate their history as 
correctly as the people would have written it themselves, if 
we read it with a steady recollection of their position and 
circumstances. At Bridlington we find they paddled their 
canoes into the bay, which was then more contracted than it 
is now, and, upon landing, ascended the highest ground 
overlooking the cliff, where the soil was dry and healthy 
and supplied with abundance of good water, and there they 
built their huts; the woods in the neighbourhood supplied 
them with game, and the sea with a variety of fish. I shall 
