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Title: The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Evans, John, Sir, 1823-1908
Subjects: Stone age
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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l, Thetford. f It has been boldly but symmetrically chipped, and has a thick, heavybutt, well adapted for being held in the hand. As is the case with almostall these implements, an analogous form has been found in the gravels ofthe valley of the Somme. The magnificent implement from the-gravel * Arch., vol. xxxix. p. 77. 33 498 RIVER-DRIFT IMPLEMENTS. (CHAP. XXIII. of Vaudricourt, near Bethune, which was exhibited at Paris in 1867, wasalso much of this type. Its length is 10£ inches ; that of the Thetfordspecimen being 8£ inches. It would be an endless task to attempt toengrave all the varieties of form found at this place, but Mr. Prigg iscorrect in his remark as to the comparative absence of the flat ovalform with a cutting edge all round. The most common type here is theovate-lanceolate, like PI. I., Fig. 5, rather thick towards the butt-end.Mr. Flower has figured a fine lanceolate specimen, and one of more ovateform from this plac\ in the Quart. Joum. of the Geological Society.*
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Fi . 429.—Relhill, Thetford ; The finely wrought symmetrical specimens are rarer at Redhill thanat Santon Downham ; but here, as elsewhere in this district, implementsare occasionally found of what has been aptly termed the shoe-shapedtype, of which an example is shown in Fig. 429. The form is flat onone face, the other being brought to a central ridge rising towards the butt,which is usually rounded and obtusely truncated. In this specimen thegreater pari of the bult-end or heel of the shoe exhibits the original crustof the nodule of flint from which the implement was formed. The point,whw b Is usually brought to a semicircular sharp edge, has been broken in * 13G7, vol. xxiii. pp. 49, 53. REDHILL, THETFORD. 499

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