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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTORY.

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The Iron, Bronze, and Stone Ages—Bronze in use before Iron—Persistence of Religious Rites—Use of Stone in Religious Ceremonies—Stone Antiquities not all of the same Age—Order of Treatment .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .

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CHAPTER II.

ON THE MANUFACTURE OF STONE IMPLEMENTS IN PREHISTORIC TIMES.

Pyrites and Flint used for striking Fire—Strike-a-light Flints—The Gun-flint Manufacture—Gun-flint Production—Modes of producing Flakes—Pressigny Nuclei—Rough-hewing Stone-hatchets—Ancient Mining for Flint—Flint—mines at Grime's Graves and Spiennes—Production of Arrow-heads—Flaking Arrow-heads—Arrow-flakers—Grinding Stone Implements—Methods of Sawing Stone—Methods of Boring Stone—Boring by means of a Tube—Progress in Modes of Manufacture .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .

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IMPLEMENTS OF THE NEOLITHIC PERIOD.

CHAPTER III.

CELTS.

Belief in their Meteoric Origin—Regarded as Thunderbolts—Celt with Gnostic Inscriptions—Their Origin and Virtues—How regarded by the Greeks and Romans .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .

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CHAPTER IV.

CHIPPED OR ROUGH-HEWN CELTS.

The Kjökken-Mödding Type—Some possibly Agricultural Implements—Some carefully Chipped—The Common Forms—Their abundance—Discoveries at Cissbury-Found in company with Polished Celts—Their probable Age .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .

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CHAPTER V.

CELTS GROUND AT THE EDGE ONLY.

Pointed at the Butt-end—Of Elongated Form—Expanding at the Ends—Of Peculiar Forms—Their Occurrence in Foreign Countries .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .

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CHAPTER VI.

POLISHED CELTS.

A Type common in the Eastern Counties—With the Surface ground all over—Expanding at the Edge—Of other Materials than Flint—The Thin and Highly-polished Type—With Flat Sides—With Flat Sides and Narrow Butt—With Flat Sides and Pointed Butt—Of Rectangular Section—Chisel-like and of Rectangular Section—Of Oval Section—Of Oval Section with Conical Butt—Of a Form common in France—Of Oval Section pointed at the Butt—With a Cutting Edge at each End—Sharp at both Ends—Polished Celts narrowing in the Middle—Used in the Hand without Hafting—Polished Celts of Abnormal types—Polished Celts with Depressions and Flutings—Circumstances under which they have been Found—