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Identifier: sussexarchaeolog24suss (find matches)
Title: Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Sussex Archaeological Society. 1n
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Publisher: Lewes, Eng. (etc.) Sussex Archaeological Society
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rm is notso remarkable, as somewhat similar shaped tools occur amongthe neolithic implements of Hampshire; and with reference toworks of human construction, of comparatively recent times,it is singular that implements resembling the European driftforms have been found in the mounds of North America,and they are considered as having been wrought by themound builders.^^ At our visit to Cissbury, in August, 1871, we succeeded infinding about two hundred implements of various forms, mostlyof rude character, and chipped into outline. They consisted ofthe so-named celts or chisels, picks, a solitary drill, well-wrought flakes of various forms, finely chipped lance-heads,implements of the oval drift-form, clumsily wrought toolspointed at both ends, choppers with rounded backs for grasping 27 Journal of the Etiinological So-ciety, Jan., 1871. Art. : On GrimesGraves, by Eev. W. Greenwell. 28 Flint-chips, hyMr. E. T. Stevens,p. 441.—Also in South Africa. See k vol. xxiii., p. 325.—Editor. V
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THE FLINT-WORKS AT OISSBURY. 157 in tlie hand—of similar type to some instruments taken froma cave of the south of France—besides slingstones, and asingle scraper found by Mr. Wonfor. The paucity of scraperswas observed by Colonel Fox, as well as the scarcity of boringtools, such as awls and drills. At the working places the ex-cavated materials consisted of innumerable chips, flakes, andblocks of flint, or cores, with broken specimens, evidentlymere waste resulting from the manufactui^ of better tools. Afilm of wrought flints appeared to occupy the entire surface ofthe camp, as I observed specimens in all the mould scrapedout by the rabbits; and in those lately brought to the sur-face the patination was recent, while in the flints that hadsuffered long exposure the oxydation of surface had pene-trated in some instances to the depth of a quarter of an inch.I found no calcined stones on the hill, and they are not men-tioned by Colonel Lane Fox, which would imply that stone-boilingw

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