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ness and point are too small to re-chip. The useless barb, like 
a broken needle, was thrown aside. All these things may be 
expected, and most are found on the sites of the 66 surface 
finds.” 
Now they are rarely discovered in any number, strangely 
enough, in the old earthen entrenchments, or so-called Caesar’s 
Camps,” of southern England, and there seems to be a sufficient 
reason for it. These occupy lofty sites, good posts of vantage 
for defence and observation, but the water supply must be 
faulty ; the exposure is certainly unquestionable. 
Fancy Archaic man, shivering in his coat of skins, on the top 
of one of these fortified hills, with the bottom of the neighbour- 
ing valley to go to for a draught of water. 
These great entrenchments, which are certainly not Roman, 
and may well be deemed prehistoric, would have a much greater 
raison d'etre if we imagine them to be the keeps or citadels of 
the neighbouring villages, to which, as in feudal times, all could 
go, flocks and herds, women and children, when danger threatened. 
Flakes would be rare there, then. There would be little time 
for peaceful amusements. The camp fire would be surrounded 
by anxious faces, too interested in outside matters to indulge in 
play. 
Most of them are places of temporary, not permanent, occu- 
pation, and hence it is that relics are rare ; for few of the en- 
trenchments have good water-supply, and flocks, herds, and 
people would soon exhaust it, and render a speedy return to the 
watercourses absolutely necessary. The tribes did not live there* 
but only took temporary shelter, and this need have been brief, 
for even the assailants must disperse in search of food, and in 
all probability if the first attack failed they withdrew. 
Where the fortifications surrounded actual village sites the 
conditions would be different, and the usual discoveries might 
be made ; but the camps on lofty hills could not have been as a 
rule held for a lengthened period. The quantity of implements 
found in the Cisbury Camp need offer no exception to the rule* 
for the entrenchments were built on the pre-existing site of old 
quarries where flint had been dug for tools. 
No traces can be found in surface-finds of actual dwellings, 
nor of the exact way in which the tools were held or hafted. But 
some ancient weapons have been found in other places with the 
old handle still fixed to them. Modern savage life again furnishes 
another clue. They were generally inserted in a cleft stick, 
sometimes vertically as a spear, at others in a curved branch, 
like an adze or pick. Doubtless withes, or strips of skins — the 
latter especially, as if tied wet they would shrink and tighten up 
the tool — were commonly used, and even in modern weapons 
there is an indication that such was really the case. Malay 
