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of probability, from their technique, their mineral condition
or patination, and from the flint of which they are made.
No. 2 is a beautiful, medium-sized, pointed implement in
marbled flint, of Late Chellean style.
No. 126 is a rather small, long-pointed implement with
untrimmed butt, not distinctively from the Milton Street bed ;
it might be from Stoke Newington.
No. 106 is another, rather similar implement.
No. 84 is a broader example, smaller than No. 106, and nearer
the sub-triangular form.
No. no is a small, narrow and pointed tool.
No. 107 is a very good example of the sub-triangular pointed
implement, flaked completely over both faces, in marbled flint.
No. 86 is a heavy, unfinished, pointed implement, in marbled
flint. It is an interesting specimen, evidently discarded before
completion owing to its becoming too thick in proportion to
its width—always a hopeless fault in the earlier stages of flaking
an implement.
One cannot draw hard and fast lines in the classification of
prehistoric implements. Flint is subject to irregularities of
texture, and it will not always flake exactly as the worker wishes.
One has to study the grouping of associated forms and get a
grasp of the main intention of the workers ; abnormalities are
often faults in working.
Other specimens I should broadly class as follows :—
Pointed Implements of Late Chellean style:—Nos. 46, 17b,
19, 27b (in marbled flint), 37, 40d, 67a, 74a, 105 (in Bullhead
flint), 108a, and 114g, which is made from a flake. Chellean
man occasionally made an implement out of a big flake, just as
he would out of an original nodule ; flake-work has its greatest
development in the Mousterian, but is found in every period.
Ruder pointed forms, some unfinished, but probably of the
same date (Late Chellean) are Nos. 4a (in Bullhead flint), 5e (in
Bullhead flint), 7, 8a, 22a, 22b (marbled flint), 30, 30b, 34b,
35f, 40g, 114a, 122b (in marbled flint).
Pointed-ovate forms are :—Nos. 3 (this is another specimen
made from a flake, with white patina), 10 (very small, in marbled
flint), 25a (in marbled flint), 50c (in Bullhead flint), 55, 63c
(in marbled flint), 77 (in marbled flint).
No. 97 is a small flat ovate, sub-ochreous, abraded, and