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tools in connection with these coloured flints, which seems to 
indicate that some of this race were farmers, who followed 
that occupation alone, while the collection of implements shows 
how few things a cultivator of the soil required at that time. 
From the evidence of this district, I believe the people 
who used the red and black flint were the first people who 
adopted farming as a distinct trade, which must have been a 
considerable advance in civilization beyond their predecessors. 
The next most remarkable collection which I made was in 
a field opposite the portico of the railway station at Bridling- 
ton. I am not aware how long this field had been ploughed 
up, but I could not fail to be astonished when I found within 
a square yard of ground an entire set of tools made of flint, 
which appear to have been only used by a carpenter, as they 
consist of hatchets, a plane, a hammer, various kinds of 
wedges (evidently formed for different uses), drills, and a stone 
ploughshare (as if the carpenter had been employed in 
making a plough) . There were several sling-stones lying near, 
and one spear-head, but no evidence of his having lived there, 
as a single small knife constituted all the household imple- 
ments on the spot. It could only have been his workshop ; 
and he, with all the other flint- using people in the neigh- 
bourhood, had either been killed or driven away, and had not 
returned to remove these implements, which show so clearly 
that he was engaged in a distinct trade, and by their colour 
and size that he was one of the race that used red and black 
flint. 
This brings the link of evidence from the field of battle to 
Hildethorpe, where there was a large village occupied by 
people who used white and gray-coloured flint. I was not 
sufficiently careful in collecting the implements in these. fields, 
as it was the first that I examined ; but those that I can still 
identify as having been found there, as well as those which I 
have since taken up on the spot to verify my knowledge of 
