FLINT FLAXES OF DEVON AND CORNWALL. 
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•of necessity selected, but in the Kitchen-midding in Constantine 
Bay there were found specimens of pottery of various degrees 
of quality and workmanship, though neither assimilates per- 
fectly with that found in the Romano-British grave-yard at 
Mount Batten. Yet they approximate so nearly that an ar- 
chaeologist would not hesitate to pronounce them, historically 
speaking, of a uniform age, produced under different degrees 
of civilisation. 
In his Commentaries , Caesar tells us that the southern coasts 
of this island were inhabited by a different race from the inland 
parts ; that central England was inhabited by those who called 
themselves natives of the country, dyed their bodies, and wore 
the skins of wild animals for clothes ; on the sea coast, but not 
extending into Devon and Cornwall, by the Belgic Gfauls, who 
were more highly civilised, used iron, and went to war in 
chariots, that came thither to plunder and invade the island. 
Here we have the element of discord, that must have kept the 
southern parts of England in continual ferment, which having 
quieted down, when their wars were ended the interlopers 
settled, and began to cultivate the land. 
It is upon reasoning such as this that I contend there is no 
evidence to show, that the flint flakes which we find scattered 
over the surface of Devon and Cornwall may not have been co- 
eval with the history of the period that immediately preceded 
the introduction of Roman civilisation into this country. 
DESCRIPTION OF PLATES. 
PLATE IX. 
Fig. 1. Almond or leaf-shaped flint implement, carefully wrought on 
both sides. 
„ 2. Flint arrow head, carefully wrought on both sides. 
„ 3, 4, 5. Flaked flints. These, as well as the two preceding figures, 
of the actual size of the implements which were found under 
six feet of peat on Dartmoor. 
„ 6. Flint arrow head from a Cromlech on Cam-Brea, Cornwall. 
„ 7. Flaked flint from submerged forest at Northam Burrows, Devon. 
„ 8, 9, 10, 11. Flaked flints from Baggy Point, N. Devon. 
„ 12. Flaked flint wrought upon one side at the margins only. — Baggy 
Point. 
PLATE X. 
„ 13, 14, 15. Flint cores from which flakes have been struck. 
,, 16, 17. Fragment of ancient pottery with and without ornamentation, 
from a Kitchen-midding in Constantine Bay, Cornwall. 
„ 18. Roebuck’s horn, from the same place. 
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