NEOLITHIC IMPLEMENTS FROM THE NORTH DOWNS. 119
sisting of the half of a small nodule of jet-black flint, from which
numerous long narrow flakes have been driven. Calcined flints
are extremely abundant.
Together with the chips of flint one occasionally finds well-
fashioned implements. I have made outline drawings, which
are reproduced in the annexed plate, of my choicest specimens.
The three implements at the top are very neatly finished
scrapers. Similar implements, mounted in handles, are used
by the Eskimos for scraping skins, hence the name. They are
the only three of the kind that I have found. Bough, concave
and irregularly shaped scrapers are common.
The central figure is either another form of scraper, or else it
is a fabricator, i.e., an instrument employed in producing the
very fine flaking on arrow-heads, etc.
The drawing in the lower left-hand corner represents the
two sides of a chipped arrow-head—the only one I have
obtained. I have also a very beautiful flake arrow-head. Small
triangular flakes that were probably used as arrow-heads are
abundant.
The adjacent figure shews one of the pigmy flakes referred
to above.
The instrument of which two views are given in the lower
right-hand corner, is a remarkably line borer. It does not
appear to be quite finished, one edge of the boring portion being
only partly chipped.
The above-described implements are all in the same fresh
condition and seem to be of the same minor age. With the
exception of the arrow-head, they are all fashioned out of flakes,
the reverse side consisting in each case of a smooth surface, with
a prominent bulb of percussion at the untrimmed end.
I think one is justified in assuming that these highly
finished implements were made for the purposes of barter to
other people who were neither so skilled in their manufacture,
nor so favoured with a supply of siliceous material. Con-
sidering the amount of flint debris scattered over the Downs, an
enormous number of implements must have been produced. If
they had been used by the makers only, one would expect to
find them on the site of manufacture, where, however, they are
really rare.