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] implements in every stage of manufacture, from the nodule of flint fresh out of the chalk, spoilt by an unlucky blow, to the article nearly finished and accidentally broken. In some places Mr. Ernest Willett and myself remarked, in 1874, little heaps of small splinters which marked the places where the finer work was carried on, and in some of these were the two halves of the broken implements, just as they had been tossed aside by the workmen. 102.—Cissbury Camp. E, M, L, K, G, N, Mine-shafts.

It was scarcely possible to pick these broken implements up and put them together without a keen feeling of the changes which had happened since they had been broken—the strange chance which led to their discovery. The Neolithic stage of civilisation had been superseded by that of Bronze; that in its turn by the age of Iron; then after an interval, the length of which we know not,