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NEOLITHIC AND PALAEOLITHIC SCRAPERS.
Neolithic flake be from which the scraper was made. This re-
trimmed scraper is illustrated one-half the actual size in fig. 2.
Palaeolithic scrapers are common at Clapton and Stoke Newington,
and I have several times found these
made from Palaeolithic flakes of much
greater antiquity than the secondary
work which makes the scraper. The
first I found was in 1878, this is illus-
trated in fig. 3. It is made from an
old ochreous-yellow and abraded flake.
This antique yellow Palaeolithic flake
was picked up by a newer Palaeolithic

Fig. 3.—Palaeolithic Scraper made
from an artificial flake of much
greater, Palaeolithic age, one-half
actual size. Lower Clapton, 1878.
man as a suitable form for a scraper.
The newer part is unabraded and dark

grey-brown in colour as indicated by
the darker tint at the upper part of the illustration.
In 1882 I picked up from the Stoke Newington sand the scraper
illustrated one-half its actual size
in fig. 4. It is made from a
very old artificially formed block
of flint, but the plain side of the
flake and the secondary scraper-
work is much more recent in date,
as is shown by the non-abrasion

and by the different tints as in-
dicated in the illustration; the

Fig. 4.—Paleolithic Scraper made from an
artificial flake of much greater Palaeolithic
age, one-half actual size. Stoke Newington
Common, March, 1882.
dark part is the more recent.
In my collection are other examples of a similar class ; for instance,
I have a Neolithic borer found by myself at Hanwell, made from an
extremely old milk-white abraded Palaeolithic flake : the newer work is
grey and perfectly sharp. I also have a thin Neolithic knife made from
a Palaeolithic flake, found at Thetford, with fine secondary Neolithic
work up one edge. The Palaeolithic flake itself is on both sides white
and slightly mottled, whilst the fine Neolithic work is jet-black.
The two last facts show that Neolithic men occasionally picked
up Palaeolithic flakes and recognised them, if not as artificial produc-
tions, yet as more suitable fragments from which to make minor
implements than unflaked natural stones.
[We are indebted to Mr. Smith for the engravings illustrating the
foregoing notes.—Ed.]