MR. W. G. CLARKE ON NEOLITHIC -VAN IN THETEORD DISTRICT. 
Across his shoulder, a bow made of a stout piece of ash and more 
sinews is slung, whilst half a dozen arrows rest in a bark quiver 
fastened at his side with a leathern thong. The arrow shafts 
are made of wood, which has been sawn to the length, shaved to 
the thickness and planed to the roundness entirely with implements 
of Hint, and are finished oil’ with barbed Hint points again bound 
on with the ever-useful sinew. With the fire obtained by striking 
a nodule of iron pyrites with a piece of Hint, he is heating some 
“pot-boilers” or “cooking-stones” to a white heat, and presently 
1 1 is wife will carefully put them inside the coarse pot ol sun-burnt 
clay, and thus heat the water. At present, she is busily engaged in 
scraping the fatty tissue from the skin of a woll which her lord 
has recently slain. Now, with stealthy footstep, and eye and ear 
on the alert, he is off in search of other game, and his wife is 
left alone. 
In the Paleolithic age, implements were made of surface Hints 
chiefly, but in the Later Stone Age, through chance excavations 
or other causes, man found that freshly-quarried Hint was much 
more easy of manipulation than that which had long been 
exposed to the elements, consequent on the former containing 
a certain amount of moisture, which after absorption by the 
atmosphere from long exposure, renders it very brittle. At 
Grimes’ Graves, Weeting, about six miles from Thetford, are 
probably the finest remains of Neolithic quarrying extant. Here, 
in 1870, Canon Greenwell, after much faith and perseverance in 
working for that which he found not, but hoped for, at length at a 
depth of forty feet came upon a tunnel in the chalk, which he 
followed up, and there a sight met his gaze that few men have been 
privileged to see, for before him lay the workmen’s tools just as 
they had been left after the day’s labour — who shall say how many 
centuries .ago ? Even the explorer at Pompeii and Herculaneum as 
he disinters the relics of more than eighteen hundred years ago, is 
looking upon modern productions when compared with those found 
at Grimes’ Graves. Here were the picks of Deers’ antlers, chalk 
lamp, and a few rough Hint Hakes and weapons laid down carelessly 
as the shades of evening fell, with the expectation of being again 
used on the subsequent day. Perhaps a neighbouring tribe made 
a raid that night, and the Hint-workers were numbered with their 
forefathers, or, as is more probable, a landslip took place, and the 
