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Flaking tools, 24, 412; probable uses of, 413; dagger-hilts used as, 414

Flax, possible use of stone bats in preparing, 257; early use of, for weaving, 436

"Flensing-knife," Eskimo, 292; Shetland blades resembling, 347

"Flint Chips" referred to, 234

Flint Jack, arrow-heads made by, 42, 659

Flint-knapping, 17-22

Flint, alteration in structure of, 494, 489, 497, 498; ancient workshops of, 22, 606; as article of barter, 35, 80; brittle condition of, 558; cutting powers of, 281, 282; difficulty of perforating, 223, 224; durability of, 655; experiments in shaping, 36, 41; flakes and cores of, 20, 31, 272, 279; grinding of, 43; hardened by exposure, 18, 32, 33; importation of, 281; minute tools of, 325; modern ceremonial use of, 9; necessity of, in savage life, 282; ochreous, 536, 553, 597, 602; pits for extraction of, 33, 35, 78, 79; prismatic splitting of, 88; processes for grinding, 43; result of abundance of, in chalk districts, 677; scarcity of in Northern Britain, 580; softening of in red brick-earth, 596; and steel, early use of, 16, 271, 282; and steel, meaning of, in interments, 283; tools for working, 41; use of, with pyrites, 16, 313, 319; whitening of, 494, 498, 490, 545, 549, 596, 611, 619; whitening, cause of, 497; worn by use, 311, 312, 414, 416

Flints, accidentally fractured, M. Hardy on, 658; heaps of, on Palæolithic floor, 598

Flood deposits, varying nature of, 668, 669; their removal by subsequent floods, 670

Floods, their action in valley-erosion, 666, 706; as caused by ground-ice, 671

"Floor-stone," gun flints made from, 33

Flora, temperate, below brick-earth, 537; recent, in Oxford peat, 593; of various climates at Hoxne, 577, 697

Flower, the late Mr. J. W., on East Anglian flint implements, 551, 556; on section at Bromehill, 681; on French and English palæolithic implements, 650; on Drift-beds of the Fens, 681; on the Drift-beds of Brandon, 683

Fluting on arrow-heads, 392; on axe-hammer, 203; on Danish dagger-hilts, 42, 393; on Egyptian blades, 359; probably effected by pressure, 42, 393

Fluviatile origin of implementiferous beds, 688

Folklore Society referred to as to fairy darts, 365

"Food-vessels" in interments, 224, 462

Fooks, Mr. C. C. S., implement found by, 606

Forbes, the late Mr. David, Bolivian implements described by, 169, 232, 239

Forel, Dr. F. A., his experiment in stone-working, 36

"Forest Bed," Norfolk, suposed worked flints from, 572

Forest, submerged, at Bournemouth, 695

Forgeries of arrow-heads, 42; of Palæolithic implements, 658, 659

"Fort," cup found in, 444

Fossils, ascription of, to diabolical agency, 363; use of, as ornaments, 470, 657; in interments, 466, 469

Foster, Dr. C. Le Neve, drift implement found by, 610

Fox, Rev. W., as to origin of Solent Sea, 690

Fracture of flint, natural and artificial compared, 273

Fragments of implements, use of, 223, 242, 339

Frankish Cemeteries, objects found in, 283, 307

Frankland, Prof., on climatal conditions of glacier formation, 698

Franks, Sir A. Wollaston, on an abraded pyrites nodule, 318; on hafting of American flint blades, 349; on perforated discs, 439; on present use of stone vessels, 450

French, Mr. J., drift implements found by, 578

Frere, Mr. John, his discoveries at Hoxne, 573. 576

Friction, polish of stone saw by, 295

Frost, disintegrating effect of, 672

Fuegians, their arrow chipping, 39, 406; their use of arrow-heads as knives, 334; their mode of fire-producing, 15, 317; their mode of using scrapers, 299

Fungus, its use as tinder, 16, 317

Fustibalus, Roman use of the, 418

Future existence, belief in, implied by objects in interments, 84, 283

Gabbro, tools for flint-working made of, 22

Gaillard, M. F., Breton finds of pyrites and flint by, 318

Gallas, form of scraper among the, 299

Games, possible use of stone balls in, 244, 245

Ganges, estimate of detritus carried by, 667

Gastaldi, Prof., on arrow-head superstitions, 367; engravings by, 120, 200, 333, 337

Gatty, Rev. Reginald A., on minute flint tools, 325

Gaudry, M., sections of San Isidro valley by, 529

Gaul, Celtic, importation of amber from, 449

Gaulish coins, stone hatchet found with, 144

Gautier de Bibelesworth quoted as to slick-stones, 441

Gaviller, Mr. G. H., oval implement found by, 584

Gay, the late Mr., 178

Geikie, Sir Archibald, on lowering of river-basins, 668; on chronology of valley erosion, 705, 706

Gems on hilt of Mexican chalcedony blade, 355

Geological data as to antiquity of man in Britain, 704, &c.

George, Mr. T., his find at Elton, 573

Georgius Agricola on thunderbolts, 64

Germany, superstitions in, regarding celts, 57, 58

Gesenius, his mention of stone knives in Palestine, 9

Gibb, Dr. G. D., drift implement found by, 617

Gibraltar, objects found in caves of, 177, 182, 252, 287, 428, 433

Gimawong, sacrificial use of stone in honour of, 10

Glacial deposit, celt found in gravel of, 136; deposit in Little Ouse valley, 682; Period, flint-bearing deposits subsequent to, 697; Period, attempt to date astronomically, 705; Periods, their relation to Palæolithic eriods, 568

Glaciers, heat action indicated by, 698

Gladstone, Dr. J. H., broad flake found by, 606

Glandes, the Roman sling-stones, 418

Glass beads in barrows, 437, 456; modern ceremonial use of flakes of, 9; "slickstones" of, 441, 442

Glossiness of surface of palæolithic implements, 659; to what cause due, 660

Glossopetra, Pliny's account of the, 363

Glovemakers, recent use of stone nodules by, 416

Godwin-Austen, Mr. R. A. C, his exploration of Kent's Cavern, 489; on gravels of Wey valley, 594; on origin of Bournemouth gravels, 694; on former temperature of English Channel, 701

Gneiss, hammers of, 221, 223, 224

Gnostic inscriptions, Egyptian celt bearing, 60, 61

Goat's horn, use of, by Mexicans in arrow making, 39

Gog and Magog, their military flail, 423