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to inform me that the relics had been deposited m the Chr ^7 
Museum. I lost no time in going to inspect 1 them an m order 
to give a more perfect knowledge of these famous hints , an 
having obtained permission to have a P ho °S ra P , before 
tnVpn T renuested Messrs. Mansell & Co. (who had betorc 
produced such perfect photographs of the taken! 
British Museum) to do this for me. Three n 
one as near as could be to the natural size ot the flints t >e 
others of a size suited to the page of the J“ urnal p °^^ 
a photograph from which forms the frontispiece o th spapen 
A scale of inches was photographed with the Amts in or 
that thev mi-ht be accurately measured; and with the aid o 
lens fhg most minute features and fractures can be examined. 
“Srmer $£ l described the cavern and 
its geological surroundings, and showed that similar shattei d 
flints and -ravel to those within the cave were found in the 
adioinin- soil of Windmill Hill above it; and I inferred, th a 
the so-called flint-knives were only subsoil flakes, washed mto 
the cavern with the gravel and loam m which t 5 
f °In d this supplemental paper I purpose to examine the daim 
of the flints to be implements made and used by man, and 
critically to investigate the evidence which has been noug 
forward in support ot such claim. yi n nc- 
An inspection of the photograph will show that fully one 
half of the flints are undefinable pieces of 
than the tip of a man’s finger ; they are neither flake! s, no 
cores nor scrapers— they are without any regularity ot tor , 
and show no evidence of design, and are unlike any J 
known to have been made by man. To call these bits of lUOble 
flint implements, undistinguishable as they are from ‘he gra el 
which we tread on in a footpath, seems to be an abandonment 
of common sense ; and without any confirmatory evidence to rely 
on, the judgment revolts from the inference that they aremanu- 
f<? There are, indeed, some very minute perfect flakes, which, 
notwithstanding their minuteness, are still said to be imp c- 
ments and so small that Mr. Evans considers that they must 
have been severed from the core by the use of a punch, yet lie 
• Thp full-size photograph may be inspected at the rooms of the Victoria 
Institute, or obtained WMe ss/s. Mansell & Co Oxford Street, 
f Journal of Victoria Institute, vol. vin. p. 21/. 
