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EARLY MAN hands ; therefore the implement is of post-glacial age, otherwise the human and non-human work would be equally striated. Excellent examples of Bedford implements with the original crust striated and the worked parts not striated may be seen in the British Museum. Implements of the largest size and greatest beauty have been found in the Bedford gravels. They vary greatly in age ; some of the newer are sharp and lustrous, and white or yellow in colour ; others and older, abraded, dull and brown. Some again are highly finished, others are very rude. It is remarkable that ovate or roundish implements are rare at Bedford, the prevailing type being pointed. In the south of the county, however, pointed implements are rare and ovate common. Bedford implements are commonly full of natural fractures made by the pressure of other stones in the gravel bed, so that they are frequently cracked through whilst still in situ, and drop in pieces as soon as disturbed. Absolutely perfect examples are therefore not very common, whilst pieces such as butts, points or fragments from the bodies or sides of implements Fie. 5. Fie. 6. are quite common in the excavated heaps of gravel in the pits or by the roadsides. 147