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Lyme Regis, manufactory of flint implements at, 35

Lyon, Mr. Caleb, on Shasta arrow-head making, 40

Lysons, Mr. Samuel, excavations at Witcombe, 144

Lyttelton, Bishop, on stone hatchets, 3, 202, 204

Mace-head, lenticular, of breccia, 232

Maces, flints naturally perforated used for, 184

Maces, see Hammers

MacEnery, the Rev. J,, his researches in Kent's Cavern, 488, 495

Machairodus, the, 508, 524

Maghara, copper mines of, 6; stone hammers at, 230; flint arrow-head from, 405

Mahanuddy, small nuclei from banks of, 23

Mahudel, on the early use of stone, 3

Maize, Kaffir mill for grinding, 250; stone pestles for crushing, 257

Mallet, Indian mode of halting, 239

Malleus fulmineus, 63

Mammoth, caves of the Age of the, 481

Man, antiquity of in Britain, 703; his co-existence with extinct animals, 474, 508, 513, 524, 700, &c.; early occupation of caves, 475, 480, &c.; mammalian fauna altered by, 482

Mandingoes, single-barbed arrows of the, 394

Manethonian dynasty, the third, use of grooved hammers in, 235

Manganese, dendritic markings due to presence of, 660

Mangles, Mr. H. A., drift implements found in Wey valley by, 595

Manning, Mr. Percy, implements found by, near Oxford, 594

Mantell, the late Dr., 84, 148, 308

Manufactories of flint implements, 34, 268, 280, 359, 401, 402; at Cissbury, 79; at Crayford, 606; in Guernsey, 401; at the Lake of Varese, 402; at Lyme Regis, 35; at Massingham Heath, 83; at Moosseedorf, 22; "wasters" found at, 80, 649

Maoris, bows unknown among the, 360; their jade chisels, 178; uses of the "Toki" among the, 172

Marathon, source of stone arrow-heads at, 368, 403

Marbodæus quoted as to the ceraunius, 64

Marcou, M., on N. American mauls, 235

Marine deposits in Fen gravels, 681

Marmot in Crayford beds, 607; in Fisherton beds, 631; presence of, indicative of climate, 699

Marrow of bones, a primitive delicacy, 504, 657

Marten, Mr. John, drift implement found by, 620

Martha's Hof, celt kept in a granary at, 58

Martin, Mr. C. Wykeham, scraper found by, 309

Mas d'Azil, painted pebbles in cave of, 484, 485

Mason, Mr. Otis T., "on aboriginal skin-dressing," 299

Massagetæ, their bronze arrow-heads, 368

Materials of which British celts are made, 65, 66, &c.; relative durability of, 655

Matter, solid, amount of in turbid water, 667

Mauls, stone, method of hafting, 169; in old copper workings, 233

Mealing-stones, absent in palæolithic times, 657; and muller, 251; from Swiss Lake-dwelling, 246, 250; on the site of Troy, 253

Medicinal powers, supposed, of stone implements, 271, 365, 437

Meillet, M., referred to, 327; on the causes of alteration in flint, 497

"Mell" for preparing barley, 451

Memnon, bronze sword of, 4

Mentone, intermediate age of deposits in caves near, 475, 487

Mercati, his suggestion as to the origin of celts, 62

Meres, New Zealand, difficulty of boring, 52; mode of using, 118; as denoting chieftainship, 226

Merewether, the late Dean, implements found by, 309

Meriones, bronze arrow of, 4

Merovingian interments, flint chips in, 283; flint implements in, 144, 145; iron arrow-heads in, 394; iron-mounted scrapers in, 314; stone objects in, 470

Mesolithic, use of term deprecated, 702

Metal-working, possible use of, small hammers for, 223; stone discs perhaps connected with, 257

Meteoric iron, probably the first used, 5

Mexican arrow-heads, 24, 39; English appearance of, 406; blade with original handle, 355; flakes of obsidian, 288; hafting of metal axes, 155, 156; obsidian cores, 23; obsidian razors, 290; obsidian swords, 294

Meyer, Dr. A. B., his catalogue of jade objects, 110

"Meyrick's Armour" referred to, 200

Mica schist, with garnets, celt of, 97; battle-axe of, 197; hammer of, 225

Micaceous grit, axe-head of, 19S; celt of, 97; perforated adze of, 189

Mid-Pleistocene character of Crayford beds, 607

Mildenhall, recent arrow-heads made by workman of, 42

Mill, bed-stone and rolling pin as, 250; rotatory, 254

"Mill-bill" of present day, 146

Mill-dues of St. Albans, 258

Mills and balls in barrows, 253

Milner, Col., his celt with Gnostic inscriptions, 60

Mine de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest, mauls found in, 235

"Miners' hammers," Irish, 234

Mining, in chalk, 33, 79, 172; stone mauls used for, 233, 234

Mining instruments of bronze, 233

Miocene Age, evidence doubtful as to existence of man in the, 374

Mirrors, possible use of polished stone discs as, 440

Missiles, possible use of discoidal implements as, 655

Mississippi, estimated amount of detritus carried by, 667

Missouri, chert quarry in, 80

Mitchell, Sir A., on the spindle and whorl, 437

Mitten, Mr., on the fossil mosses from Hoxne, 577

Mongols, use of military flail among the, 423

Monkman, Mr. C, on sling-stones and intrenchments, 419

Montelius, Prof., referred to, 154, 261

Montezuma, arrow-making in palace of, 406; stone axe of, 157

Moraines of glaciers, boulder-clay mainly derived from, 697

Morison, Fynes, on Irish corn- grinding, 251

Morlot, M., his suggestions as to grinding flints, 43

"Morning star," a modification of the staff-sling, 423

Morse, Miss, her assistance with fossil plants from Hoxne, 577

Mortars, 245, 257, 450

Mortillet, M. A. de, on celt with haft-mark, 154; M. Gabriel de, on boring of Swiss axes, 51; on the chronological sequence of cave deposits, 475; classification of caves by, 483; on a cubical grindstone, 245; on