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Flint Implements from the Ploughlands of South-West Leicestershire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2013

A. J. Pickering
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In the autumn of 1913, Mr. T. C. Cantrill, F.G.S., of the Geological Survey, drew the writer's attention to the possibility of finding flint artefacts in the surface soils of Hinckley and neigh-bourhood wherever the chalky boulder clays and gravels were in evidence. During his survey of the drift in this district in that and the following year, he himself found a lozenge-shaped scraper (No. 163, Plate LXVIII) in a field at Sapcote, and also five spalls of unmistakable human origin in other neighbouring localities.

In the winter of that year, Mr. F. C. Grimes and I began a systematic search which by the following spring had resulted in sufficient material to encourage us to further efforts, and the following notes are the result of a by no means exhaustive survey during that and the two following winters.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , 1918 , pp. 549 - 563
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1918

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page 549 note * These specimens, which Sir John Evans pronounced to be Neolithic, were figured in the Transactions of the Leicester Lit. and Phil. Society for 1888, pp. 34–35, in a paper (“Evidences of the Antiquity of Man in Leicestershire”) by Mr. Montagu Browne, then Curator of Leicester Museum.

page 550 note * In my garden at Hinckley (O.D. 440 feet) a large irregular block of black flint, excavated 4 feet down in chalky boulder clay, weighed upwards of a hundredweight.

page 550 note † This implement was found in association with bones of Bos primigenius, or Bison,, in a bed of peat containing bog wood, during the construction of a sewer from the Hollycroft to the Coventry Road, Hinckley. It is a large irregular-shaped unpatinated flake of dark grey colour, with a minutely serrated edge.

page 552 note * “Ancient Stone Implements,” Fig. 214.

page 552 note † Op. cit., Fig. 207.

page 553 note * Compare “British Museum Guide,” Ed. 2, 1911 Google Scholar, Fig. 41.

page 554 note * “Cone Cultures in the Wensum Valley,” Proc. Prehistoric Soc. of East Anglia, Vol. II, 1915–1916, p. 194 Google Scholar.

page 555 note (1) Op. cit., Fig. 348.

page 558 note (1) “Flint Chipping-Floors in South-west Pembrokeshire,” Archæologia Cambrensis, 1915, p. 186 Google Scholar, Fig. 10, B.

page 560 note (1) Proc. of Prehistoric Society of East Anglia, Vol. II, p. 42 Google Scholar.

page 562 note (1) “Neolithic Flints from a Chipping Floor at Cannock Wood, near Rugeley, S. Staffordshire.”—Trans. N. Staffs. Field Club, Vol. LI, (1917), p. 85 Google Scholar.

page 562 note (2) Trans. Leicester Lit. and Phil. Soc., 1888, p. 33 Google Scholar.