MR. W. G. CLARKE ON REMAINS OF THE NEOLITHIC AGE. 31 
The following table gives various details concerning 593 
implements all found within a few miles of Thetford. 
N umber of 
Specimens. 
With 
Chipped Bulb. 
With 
Part of Crust on. 
Rechipped. 
Black. 
Shades of Blue. 
V 
c 
Urn 
0 
«/J 
V 
jq 
c/3 
Shades of Yellow. 
Miscellaneous 
Shades. 
Arrowheads - 
7 

I 
— 
— 
3 
3 
I 
Awls - 
10 
4 
5 
— 
2 
2 
3 
3 
— 
Axes 
15 
— 
5 
I 
— 
I 
14 
— 
— 
Borers - 
19 
8 
1 1 
— 
4 
2 
7 
3 
3 
Chisels - 
12 
4 
9 
— 
3 
2 
7 
— 
— 
Fabricators - 
45 
21 
I 
3 
4 
29 
6 
3 
Gravers 
42 
13 
18 
I 
4 
5 
17 
13 
3 
Hollow Scrapers - 
50 
21 
29 
3 
4 
4 
29 
9 
4 
Knives- 
122 
35 
50 
6 
9 
14 
53 
4i 
5 
Saws - 
5 
— 
1 
— 
— 
5 
— 
— 
Scrapers 
213 
65 
115 
9 
24 
46 
83 
49 
11 
Miscellaneous 
53 
3 
2 > 
1 
1 
7 
37 
3 
5 
Totals - 
593 
174 
279 
23 
54 
87 
2S7 
130 
35 
Writing of flint implements in ‘ Mosses from an Old Manse,’ 
Nathaniel Hawthorne says: “Their great charm consists in 
their rudeness and in the individuality of each article, so 
different from the productions of civilised machinery, which 
shapes everything on one pattern.” This individuality of the 
combined designer and maker is certainly one of the greatest 
attractions to the archaeologist, and even in well-defined 
types numerous variations from the normal may usually 
be found. Those hereafter mentioned are, therefore, only 
the most uncommon examples of the handiwork of Neolithic 
man added to my collection of implements from Thetford 
district during the past ten years. 
Arrowheads are decidedly uncommon. To some extent 
this may be due to the fact that for over thirty years the 
district has been fairly well worked, and these are implements 
that appeal to every casual searcher. On the other hand, 
as Professor Windle has pointed out : “ In some districts 
many varieties of implements may be found ; in others the 
range of examples is much more limited.” The barbed 
arrowheads from the_neighbourhood seem on the whole to 
