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B . — Evidence of progressive skill in the handicraft works of Man. 
Plate I. gives a full-sized view of a flint implement found, along 
with an elephant’s tooth, at Gray’s Inn Lane, London, about the 
end of the 17th century, being the first recorded discovery of the 
Fig. 19.— Palaeolithic flint implements from the Terrace-gravel 
at Galley Hill (|). 
kind in Britain. It is a typical specimen of what French archae- 
ologists call the £ coup de poing,’ probably the first definite type of 
hand- implement which came to be widely imitated among the earlier 
races of man. Implements of this kind vary considerably in form 
and size, the degree of variability being, however, strictly compat- 
ible with its function as a hand-tool. Fig. 19 shows a variety 
