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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 519

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499 REDHILL, THETFOKn. old times either by use or by attrition in the gravel. Most of these shoe- shaped instruments have been formed from large spalls of flint, so that the flat face has been the result … showing signs of use and wear on their edges, and some being worked to a quadrant of a circle, or more, at the point, so as to make them almost assume the form of scrapers. I have one external flake in which is worked a curved recess, as if by scraping some hard cylindrical object, such as a round…

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