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The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain (1872)

Evans, John, Sir, 1823-1908 · London : Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer · leaf 387

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CHAPTER XVII. FABRICATORS, FLAKING TOOLS, ETC. In treating of the manufacture of stone implements in prehistoric times I have already (p. 37) described certain tools of flint with a blunted, worn, and rounded appearance at one or both ends, as if resulting from attrition against a hard substance,… … have been smoothed off", but the other end is completely rounded, and pre- Fig. 346.— Yuiksliir.' Wolds. sents the half-polished, worn appearance characteristic of these tools. The curvature lengthways to some extent resembles that

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