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modern forgeries. In all the forged implements the patina is 
wanting—in shape they differ somewhat from genuine specimens, 
and the edges are quite unworn. Mr. Evans and Mr. Lubbock 
detected smears, brush marks, and finger marks, upon some forged 
implements, at the time of their disinterment . 
3 to 6. Forgeries of flint implements (drift type), made and sold 
by the workmen near Amiens, deposited by Mr . C. J . Read. 
7 to 19. Examples of flint, flaked and chipped from natural 
causes, and approaching the appearance ot human worked 
flints. 12 to 16 are from drift beds, and the fractures are 
aged and patinated precisely as with the human worked flints 
from the same beds, see examples in Case IP. Deposited by 
Mr. j E. T. Stevens. 
20. “ Fossil beads” (so called), from the drift of Fisherton Anger, 
and other localities, deposited by Mr. E. T. Stevens. 
The presence of these fossil beads in drift deposits was held at 
one time to afford a further proof of man’s existence at that remote 
period, for by his hands it was contended that the holes had been 
bored. They are, however, common fossils in the chalk ( orbitolina 
globularis ), in which they are found in the perforated condition, or 
solid, or with a more or less shallow hole in their substance. The 
perforation of these non-drifted specimens in the chalk is often as 
smooth and straight as if artificial ; (see No. 2\f and plate 3, 
fig. 2). The interior surface, however, is not worn, but consists of 
the natural structure of the organism, and may be due to the 
orbitolina having grown around a smooth stem of sea-weed. As 
perforated specimens of this fossil occur in the chalk, so do im¬ 
perforate orbitolinse occur in the drift gravels, and it is obvious that 
the fossil beads of the drift must be regarded simply as evidence of 
the denudation of chalk. 
A savage probably would have selected these perforated objects 
for decorative purposes, just as we find the Ancient Briton did 
select shells with natural perforations such as the dentalium for 
necklaces and the like. Some of these dentalia were discovered 
in a tumulus at Winterborne Stoke, near Salisbury (see plate 3, 
fig. 4). It is clear that they must have been collected on some sea- 
coast, simply because they presented a perforation adapting them 
for stringing, orbitolinae, on the other hand, possessing a similar 
perforation, were to be had close at home. 
The Celt (like other people in a similar state of civilization) 
availed himself of any natural objects, pretty in themselves, out of 
which he made personal ornaments, whether they were naturally 
perforated or not ; thus with the dentalia were found some joints 
of the vertebral column of a fossil pentacrinite , a fossil not likely 
to be met with near Salisbury, but possibly obtained from the lias 
of Somerset or Dorset. The Rev. E. Duke possesses a large bead, 
found in a tumulus at Lake, near Salisbury, which is formed from 
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