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49. (1/2). Corner flake, suggestive of the triangular file-
In my own collection. Pillow Mounds.
Many hammer-stones in flint were also found at the Camp ;
some of these show well the quality of the fresh chalk flint
employed in the industry, but otherwise show little that is
distinctive. The best hammer-stone, or pounder, was nearly
spherical, and a little more than 11/2 inch in diameter. This was
found in the bleached sand in the lower part of the inner bank
XIX., very near to some broken fragments of a quern-stone in
sarsen. The pounder and quern may have been used together.
Three fragments of this nearly flat quern, about 3/4 inch in
thickness, were found, of which two fitted together as already
stated.3
Summary of the Flint Industry.—I have carefully re-ex-
amined the collections made from both Camps in 1881 and 1882,
which, while much less numerous than that now obtained, are of
closely similar character.
The flint industry includes the "Thames pick," the chipped
axe, the polished axe, the barbed arrow-point, the sub-triangular
arrow-point (the leaf-shaped arrow-point has not been found, but
would probably be present), a varied group of particularly good
scrapers, corner-flakes, minor tools such as the "saw," the
"cone "group, and many good flakes which it seemed scarcely
worth while to attempt to illustrate in detail.
I have no prejudice in the dating of flint industries, one way
or another. I am also in daily contact with the dangers and
difficulties of admixture of different dates, particularly of the
prolonged preservation of earlier flint implements upon later
sites; but in this case there certainly appears to be evidence of
very substantial weight pointing to genuine contemporary
association all along the line—at least, for the time being, I can
see no definite avenue of escape from that point of view.
In conclusion, I may perhaps say a few words on the method
in which the digging was carried out. We employed only one
paid man to dig, and he very quickly acquired a good eye for a
worked flint. There was always one observer, breaking up the
3 I have in my own collection a perfect example of a nearly flat quern in sarsen, measuring
7" x 5" x about 3/4", from a Hallstatt site at Turnford, a few miles away. Close to this was also
found a spherical pounder.