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Rh as an object of no significance, until 1859, when Sir A. W. Franks recognized its close similarity to the flint implements discovered by M. Boucher de Perthes in the gravels of the Somme valley. A similar fate befell a later discovery (1797) of flint implements, associated with the bones of extinct animals, at Hoxne in Suffolk.