Transactions Volume 31-34 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ... hammer stones. I believe the flint waste was burnt intentionally to be afterwards crushed and used as an ingredient of one class of pottery. Among the articles found are two square chisel edged tools; what exactly they are or how they were used I would not venture to say for certain. They seem too sharp in the edge for scrapers, perhaps they were hafted and used chisel-wise. Note portion of the outer skin of flint on black specimen; this occurs on many of the implements and together with the small size of most of them shows that they must have been made out of small awkwardly shaped material. We get no fine shapely tool of large size such as are found in a Southern flint bearing county; in fact we have ample proof that the tools found on the Hill were manufactured up there for we find along with them nodules of unworked flint of small size and irregular form, black, grey, or yellow, derived no doubt from the Drift in the Avon Valley below. None of the flints (or pebbles to be mentioned later) occur naturally on the tops of these Cotswold Hills. All must have been carried up by human agency, and this makes the task of collecting these relics of Neolithic man the easier, as there is no confusing them with natural flints as on the Downs south of the Thames. In addition to these nodules of flint we find cores, that is pieces of flint from which flakes have been struck off, and also a lot of irregular scraps of waste flint. All this proves that the tools found on the Hill were made there from flint derived from the nearest local source, i.e., the Drift beds of the Avon Valley. Returning to the tools proper we next have two Duck-bill scrapers (fig. 3), about 2%, ms. long, exceedingly rough in form due to the cause I have just mentioned. I have found worked tips o..