PRIMAEVAL MAN IN THE VALLEY OF THE LEA. 85
Warp" above. Both examples are now in the British Museum,
Bloomsbury. The two drawings in both fig. 2 and fig. 3 represent
two views of the same object. The back of fig. 2 is white, stained
with ochre, and worked all over. The top as represented in
Fig. 4.—Conjoined Palaeolithic flakes from Abney Park Cemetery
(one-half actual size).
engraving is livid brown. The replaced flake is white underneath
whilst the matrix on which it fits is livid brown. This curious
fact proves that the block and flake must have lain apart since the
time of the deposit of the "Trail and Warp."
Fig. 3 is of a similar class with the
last, but curiously enough, whilst both
flakes are creamy white on the faceted
side, they are both livid brown on the
bulb side. This fact proves that—like
the last—both flakes must have lain
apart for an enormous length of time.
There is a curious oval mark shown in
the illustration, like a knot in wood,
cut across by the Palaeolithic flaker in
the act of flaking (fig. 3). The flakes
in figs. 2 and 3 were conjoined by
me in March, 1884.
At fig. 4 two conjoined flakes are
seen in three positions. The left hand

figure represents the front, the right

Fig. 5.—Knife-flake, untrimmed (one-
half actual size).
hand the back, and the intermediate
figure the edge. The flakes were picked up by me from sand
thrown out of a grave in Abney Park Cemetery in March,
1886. The "Palaeolithic Floor" was exposed in section in the
grave, and from the excavated sand I picked up a large number of