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apparently a lengthy apprenticeship was required before the 
skill to adapt even this more tractable stone could be acquired. 
It was in the upper part of the cave earth and in the breccia 
that a higher class of work made its appearance in these beds, 
accompanying, be it observed, the remains of the Pleistocene 
Fig. 4. 
Fig. 5. 
QUARTZITE HACHE, HALF 
NATURAL SIZE. 
a. Section. Cave earth. 
QUARTZITE FLAKE, 
X 2 . 
a. Section. Cave 
earth. 
Fig. 6. 
OVAL QUARTZITE IMPLE- 
MENT, x jr. 
a. Section. Cave earth. 
mammalia, and numerous implements, some of quartzite, 
others of flint, and two or three of clay ironstone (fig. 7) 
were found, and with these were also fragments of charcoal, 
showing that man was in the habit of using fire. Some of the 
quartzite and also the ironstone implements were, it has been 
observed, u of the same form as those which have been dis- 
covered in the river gravels of Brandon, Bedford, and Hoxne, 
and which occur in those of France, from St. Acheul, near 
Amiens, as far as the district round Toulouse, and always in 
association with the mammoth, reindeer, and woolly rhinoceros. 
Others with curved hatchet edges, notched by use, were choppers, 
like those met with in the bone caves of Dordogne under very 
similar circumstances as at Creswell, by MM. Lartet and Christy ; 
