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SIR J. EVANS—NEOLITHIC CELT. 
past Midfield House to the Common, and about 150 yards to the 
south-west of “The Kennels” and half a mile north-west of the 
bridge over the London and North-Western Kailway. The spot is 
now known as Manor End, a house having been built upon it for 
Mr. J. K. Thursfield. Its elevation is about 530 feet above 
Ordnance datum. 
It was in planting operations on this site in March, 1904, that 
Mr. Thursfield himself found the implement that I will now 
describe. It is a celt or hatchet of grey flint, much of the same 
character as fig. 23 in ‘ Stone Implements,’ hut rather longer in 
its proportions, being 7 inches long and 2f inches broad in its 
widest part. The greatest thickness is H inch. It is entirely free 
from any rust-marks, such as it would no doubt have acquired had 
it been lying on the surface, and it must therefore have lain 
undisturbed in the ground until the deep digging in order to plant 
trees brought it to the surface. It has been very carefully chipped 
into symmetrical form, hut hears no trace of grinding or polishing. 
It is equally convex on both faces. 
Eor rough work such axes must have been as efficient as those 
the edges of which were ground sharp, and of course they were 
far easier to manufacture. Such implements are probably more 
abundant than is usually supposed, hut a more cultivated eye is 
required to single them out from among other flints than is the 
case with those which have evidently been ground or polished by 
the hand of men. 
