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 EARLY MAN Warren Lodge. — See Mildenhall. Welnetham Magna (Sicklesmere). — Palaeolithic implements [Evans, Stone Imp. 542 ; Brit. Mus. Guide to the Stone y^ge, g, 21 ; Proc. Suff. Inst. Arch, vii, 216; Miller and Skertchley, Fenland, 548 ; Proc. Narw. Geol. Soc. i, 163]. Wenhaston. — Neolithic flakes and scrapers. Westhall. — Neolithic rubbed flint pebbles [Evans, Stone Imp. 442 ; Arch.xxxW, 456]. Neolithic scrapers. Westleton. — Neolithic white flint gouge [Evans, Stone Imp. 179]; neolithic quartzite hammer- head [Proc. Norw. Geol. Soc. i, 30]. Also many rudely worked neolithic implements. Westley. — Palaeolithic human skull [Joum. Anthrop. Inst, xiv, 51 ; Man the Primeval Savage, 280; Evans, Stone Imp. 542]. Palaeolithic chopper [ibid. 543]. Neolithic spear-heads and other implements [Proc. Suff. Inst. Arch, vii, 214]. Weston. — Rudely worked neolithic implements. West Row. — See Mildenhall. West Stow. — Palaeolithic implements [Evans, 5/««^ Imp. 542; Brit. Assoc. Rep. 1897; Miller and Skertchley, Fenland, 548 ; Brit. Mus. Guide to the Stone Age, 9]. Neolithic implements : Polished flint celt [Evans, Stone Imp. 100] ; thin ground adze [ibid. 92]; flint chisel [ibid. 176] ; arrow-heads [ibid. 389 ; Proc. Suff. Inst. Arch, vii, 216]. Many other neolithic implements have been found here, some of which are in the Museum of Archaeology at Cambridge. In North Stow, in this parish, neolithic flint chisel [Evans, Stone Imp. 176] ; curved knife and horse-shoe-shaped ground flint knife [ibid. 342, 356] ; ground-edged chisel [Proc. Suff. Inst. Arch, xi, (2), 203]. Wetheringsett. — Two neolithic polished axes, picked up by schoolboys, are preserved in the village school. Wherstead. — Palaeolithic implements [Proc. Norw. Geol. Soc. i, 164]. Neolithic implements in Ipswich Museum. Whitton. — Neolithic flakes and scrapers. WiCKHAMEROOK. — Neolithic polished axe in Bury St. Edmunds Museum. WicKHAM Market. — Neolithic implements of rude workmanship. Willingham. — Neolithic chopper and scrapers. Woodbridge. — Finely worked neolithic flint knife, polished axe, and many other well-worked implements. Woolpit. — Neolithic arrow-head in British Museum. Worlingham. — Neolithic flakes, choppers, and scrapers. Worlington. — Neolithic polished axes, arrow-heads, and many other delicately worked implements. Some are in the Museum of Archaeology at Cambridge. Worlingworth. — Neolithic implements of rude workmanship, Wortham. — Neolithic polished axe in Norwich Museum. The Bronze Age A convenient division w^hich may be made of prehistoric antiquities is that which separates the stone ages from the metal ages, the Palaeolithic and Neolithic Periods from those of bronze and iron. The beginning of the Bronze Age in Britain is archaeologically very important for more than one reason. It marks a great advance in culture, and it proves the coming of a new race to our shores. In certain countries the age of stone appears to have been succeeded by a period in which the only metallic tools and weapons were those made of copper, but before the Goidelic Celts came to Britain they had arrived at the Bronze Age of culture, a distinct advance on the Copper Age, There are many problems in connexion with the early working of bronze in this country into which it is unnecessary to enter in this place ; but a few words on the general question of the Bronze Age are perhaps desir- able in order to indicate the value and precise significance of some of the discoveries of antiquities in Suffolk about to be described. The chief source of information on certain phases of prehistoric civilization and prehistoric customs is found in sepulchral remains. This 263