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present time, use an exactly similar implement for the same
purpose. A number of these objects will be found in the cases.
The flint used by Neolithic man was procured by mining,
such stones being found to flake more easily than those lying
exposed on the surface. Among the remains of this period, none
perhaps are more interesting than the flint-mines of Grimes
Graves in Norfolk and at Cissbury Hill in Sussex. Shafts were
sunk through the chalk, until a seam of suitable flint was
Fig. 9. Three Neolithic Celts found near Temple Mills, Essex.
(From Essex Field Club Trans., vol. iii., p. 146.)
obtained ; this was then worked out in galleries. The tools and
appliances used have been discovered in these galleries, just as
they were left by the Neolithic miner. They consist of picks
formed from antlers of the Red-deer, wedges, hammers, and
little chalk cups which had contained oil and a floating wick,
thus forming a lamp to enable the miner to see to work. The
flint on being brought to the surface was roughly chipped into
shape, the flakes which were struck off in the process being often
found in heaps, together with some of the roughly shaped