The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons, and Ornaments, of Great BritainD. Appleton, 1872 - 640 pagine |
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Aberdeenshire adze ancient angles Antiquarian Museum appears Arch Archæological arrow-heads Assoc axe-head barrow beds blade Bridlington British Museum bronze dagger butt butt-end Cavern caves celt chalk character chisel Christy Collection convex curved cutting deposits Derbyshire described dolmen edge engraved feet Fimber flint flint arrow-heads flint celt flint flakes flint implements gravel greenstone Greenwell grinding hafted hammer handle hatchets Hill hole hollow Icklingham inches broad inches in diameter inches long inches thick inches wide instances instruments interments Journ Kent's Cavern lance-heads leaf-shaped ments Museum at Edinburgh nearly neighbourhood Neolithic notch occur original oval Palæolithic pebbles perforated pointed polished porphyritic Preh present probably Proc purpose pyrites quartzite river rounded Santon Downham Scot scrapers shaft shaft-hole sharp shown in Fig sides similar skeleton slightly South Wilts specimen Suffolk surface tang tumulus Upton Lovel valley W. C. Lukis weapons worn Yorkshire Wolds
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Pagina 411 - He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
Pagina 567 - It is evident, therefore, that, when we are speculating on the excavating force which a river may have exerted in any particular valley, the most important question is, not the volume of the existing stream, nor the present levels of its channel, nor even the nature of the rocks, but the probability of a succession of floods, at some period since the time when the valley may have been first elevated above the sea.
Pagina 470 - But after devoting the greater part of a day to his vast collection, I am perfectly satisfied that there is a great deal of fair presumptive evidence in favor of many of his speculations regarding the remote antiquity of these industrial objects and their association with animals now extinct.
Pagina 21 - ... inches long, to give more weight to this part ; then, pressing their naked feet together, they hold the stone as with a pair of pincers or the vice of a carpenter's bench. They take the stick (which is cut off smooth at the end) with both hands, and set it well home against the edge of the front of the stone...
Pagina 23 - The native, having chosen a pebble of agate, flint, or other suitable stone, perhaps as large as an ostrich egg, sits down before a larger block, on which he strikes it so as to detach from the end a piece, leaving a flattened base for his subsequent operations.
Pagina 606 - ... immensely remote was the epoch, when what is now that vast bay was high and dry land, and a long range of chalk downs, 600 feet above the sea, bounded the horizon on the south? And yet this must have been the sight that met the eyes of those primeval men who frequented the banks of that ancient river which buried their handiworks in gravels that now cap the cliffs, and of the course of which so strange but indubitable a memorial subsists in what has now become the Solent Sea.
Pagina 505 - I think, evidently weapons of war, fabricated and used by a people who had not the use of metals. They lay in great numbers at the depth of about twelve feet, in a stratified soil, which was dug into for the purpose of raising clay for bricks.
Pagina 430 - ... out of those thirty-one, all, with the exception of six, are still living in our island. The cave bear, cave lion, and cave hyaena had vanished away, along with a whole group of pachyderms, and of all the extinct animals but one, the Irish elk, still survived.
Pagina 201 - Mr. John Evans* figures a grooved pebble very large in comparison with our New Jersey specimens, as a " grooved hammer," (?) and says of it and similar ones, " They were originally regarded as stone-hammers, but such as I have examined are made of a softer stone than those usually employed for hammers, and they are not battered or worn at the ends. It seems, therefore, probable that they were used as sinkers for nets and lines, for which purpose they are well adapted, the groove being deep enough...
Pagina 602 - Neolithic periods); so far as any intermediate forms of implements are concerned ; and here at least, the race of men who fabricated the latest of the Palaeolithic implements may "have, and in all probability had, disappeared, at an epoch remote from that when the country was again occupied by those who not only chipped out but polished their flint tools, and who were moreover associated with a mammalian fauna far nearer resembling that of the present day than that of the Quatenary times." M. Gabriel...