The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great BritainLongmans, Green, and Company, 1897 - 747 Seiten |
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Aberdeenshire adze ancient angles Anth appears Arch Assoc axes barbed barrow beds blade bone Bridlington Brit British Museum bronze butt butt-end Canon Greenwell cave-earth caves celt character chert chipped chisel Christy Collection convex curved cutting deposits Derbyshire described discoveries edge engraved face feet figured flat flint flint celt flint flakes flint implements Geol gravel greenstone Greenwell Collection grinding hafted hammer hammer-stones handle hatchets Hill hole hyæna Icklingham imple inches in diameter inches long Inst instances instruments Joseph Prestwich Journ Kent's Cavern kind late Le Moustier ments nearly neighbourhood Neolithic occur ochreous original oval ovate palæolithic pebbles perforated pointed polished porphyritic Preh probably Proc quartzite River-drift rounded Santon Downham Scot scrapers shaft-hole sharp shown in Fig sides similar slightly specimen Spiennes stalagmite Stone Age stone implements Suffolk surface thick Trans tumulus valley weapons Wilts Wolds worn Yorkshire Yorkshire Wolds
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Seite 464 - He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
Seite 23 - ... cubits or rather more in length, and at the end of it they fasten firmly another piece of wood, eight inches long, to give more weight to this part ; then, pressing their naked feet together, they hold the stone as with a pair of pincers, or the vice of a carpenter's bench. They take the stick (which is cut off smooth at the end) with both hands, and set it well home against the edge of the front of the stone...
Seite 569 - I think, evidently weapons of war, fabricated and used by a people who had not the use of metals. They lay in great numbers at the depth of about twelve feet, in a stratified soil, which was dug into for the purpose of raising clay for bricks.
Seite 23 - ... the front of the stone (y ponenlo avesar con el canto de la frente de la piedra) which "also is cut smooth in that part ; and then they press it against their breast, and with "the force of the pressure there flies off a knife, with its point, and edge on each side, " as neatly as if one were to make them of a turnip with a sharp knife, or of iron in
Seite 700 - Neolithic periods); so far as any intermediate forms of implements are concerned ; and here at least, the race of men who fabricated the latest of the Palaeolithic implements may "have, and in all probability had, disappeared, at an epoch remote from that when the country was again occupied by those who not only chipped out but polished their flint tools, and who were moreover associated with a mammalian fauna far nearer resembling that of the present day than that of the Quatenary times.
Seite 64 - Aldrovandus, in the mid-seventeenth century, describes stone tools as 'due to an admixture of a certain exhalation of thunder and lightning with metallic matter, chiefly in dark clouds, which is coagulated by the circumfused moisture and conglutinated into a mass (like flour with water) and subsequently indurated by heat, like a brick...
Seite 3 - There is not the least doubt of these stone instruments having been fabricated in the earliest times, and by barbarous people, before the use of iron or other metals was known...
Seite 23 - One of these Indian workmen sits down upon the ground and takes a piece of this black stone, which is like jet, and...
Seite 577 - No. 246. A British weapon found, with elephant's tooth, opposite to black Mary's, near Grayes Inn Lane. Conyers. It is a large black flint shaped into the figure of a spear's point.
Seite 486 - On KENT'S CAVERN near TORQUAY. BY EDWARD VIVIAN, Esq. In this paper an account was given of some recent researches in that cavern by a committee of the Torquay Natural History Society, during which the bones of various extinct species of animals were found in several situations.''!