Beetles, elytra of, in brick-earth. 536
Beger, "celtes" first named by, 55
Belcher, Sir Edward, on Eskimo arrow-flaking, 37, 39; "flensing-knife," 292; stone working, 25; stone planes, 299
Bell, Mr. A. M., discoveries of implements by, 503, 610
Bellilah, Australian mode of pounding, 245;
Belt, the iate Mr. Thomas, on Hoxne deposits, 576
ΒΕΝΙΠε, interpretation of, 5
Bennett, Mr. F. G., implements found by, 536, 627
Bernays, Mr. E. A., palæolithic implement found by, 611
Bicarbonate of lime, proportion of, in chalk-streams, 675
"Bill." meaning of, 146
Bipennis, 146
Birds, remains of, in Fisherton beds, 631
Bison, caves of the age of the, 481
Bitumen, use of, in Swiss Lake-dwellings, 170, 292, 409; Egyptian arrows secured to shaft by, 369
"Black balls," present use of, in ballots, 468
"Black-boy gum," flints mounted in, 277
Blackmore, Dr. Humphrey P., drift implements found by, 627, 628, 635
Blacksmiths, modern, their mode of hafting chisels, 168, 233
Blades of flint, crescent-shaped, 355; Egyptian, 354; from Kent's Cavern, 496
Blanford, Mr. W. T., Indian drift implements found by, 651
Blunting of battle-axes, 196, 207
Boars' teeth in interments, 83, 148, 328, 427
Bodkin of wood in urn, 433
Bodmann, flint manufactory at, 22
Bohemian stone axes, 51
Bolas, present mode of using, 422
"Bolthead, the flat," 364
Bonardo on flint arrow-heads, 364
Bone, arrow-heads of, 21, 361, 402; awl, 523; beads, 211, 432, 456; blade of, flint flakes inserted in, 277, 294; chisels, 177; harpoons of, 277, 394; instruments in interments, 313, 314, 431, &c.; needles, 321, 433, 523; objects of, in caves, 484, 488, 492, 523, &c.; late Roman, 144; pins, 34, 40, 83, 186, 431, 432; plate of, perforated, 428; rounded piece of, 34; single-barbed arrow-head of, 409; tools of, Eskimo, 410; tube, 268; used in arrow-chipping, 39, &c.; wedge for working obsidian, 24
Bones, crushing of, probably for marrow, 25, 239, 504, 657; gnawed, 486, 508; human, with those of extinct animals, 481, &c.; mineral condition of, in caves, 508
Borers or awls, 321-325
Boring of stone, methods of, 47, 48, 52; incomplete, of stone implements, 205, 206, 226
Bos primigenius, celt imbedded in skull of, 91, 92; longifrons not found in Britain before neolithic times, 486
Botocudo Indians, their method of hafting, 156; their use of stone blades, 171
Boulder, cup formed from, 450
Boulder Clay, anterior to implementiferous deposits, 577, 685, 697; East Anglian, 683
Boulders, American use of, 235; used as hammers, 233, 234
Bourgeois, Abbe, on human works in Pliocene times. 658
"Bournes," causes of intermittence of, 664
Bow, use of, not general among savages, 360
Bows and arrows, Egyptian carved figures armed with, 369; myth concerning, 361
Bowen, Mr., as to African "thunderbolts," 60
Box, stone, containing red pigment, 264
Bracelets (see Armlets)
Bracers, 425-435, 456
Bracken, use of, as food, 250
Brandon, manufacture of gun-flints at, 14, 17
Brazilian stone axe, 157
Breach through the chalk range near Bournemouth, 605
Breccia, formation of, in caves, 479; implements from, in Kent's Cavern, 495; mace-head made of, 232
Brent, Mr. John, implements found by, at Reculver, 613-620
Briar-wood shaft, arrow-head found with, 408
Brick-earth, implements from, 530, 536, 542, 548; old land surface underlying, 598
Bright spots on drift implements, 565, 659
Briquets with flints in graves, 283, 397; bruising of flints by the use of, 315
Brittany, superstitions regarding celts in, 57; early incised drawings of celts in, 62
Brixham Cave, discovery of, 490; fauna of, 513; implements of, 513-516; section of, 512
Broch of Lingrow, 416, 440
Brochs, cups in, 414, 440; querns in, 259; stone and bronze in, 440; whetstones in, 269
Bronze Period in Egypt, 6; in Greece and Italy, 4, 5; probable duration of, 704
Bronze, armlets of, 459; arms, mention of by Homer, 4; arrowheads, 368; awls, 84; bucket, 451; celts, 213, 268, 453; celts mounted in stag's horn, 428; chisels, 6; dagger with ox-horn hilt, 265; daggers, 185, 193. 194. 208, 227, 398, 427, &c.; earrings, 207; Egyptian hatchets, 169; finger-ring, 398; "hammer-stone," 246; implement found at Ploucour, 340; knife in interment, 195; knife, socketed, in Kent's Cavern, 492; mining instruments, 6, 233; moulds for celts, 269; needle, central-eyed, 433; pal-staves, 163; pins, 267, 269; tube, 49; tweezers, 433; use of, in Britain, 147; use of, contemporaneous with that of stone, 84, 143, 211, 331, &c.
Brooch of metal in interment, 214; possible use of ring as, 466
Brooke, Mr. J. W,, his implements from Fordingbridge, 633
Brown, Mr. J. Allen, on minute flint tools, 325; researches at Ealing, &c., 591; Mr. James, drift implements found by, 622, 625, &c.
Browne, Sir Thomas, on slickstones, 441
Brun, M. V., his explorations at Bruniquel, 296
Brunswick, first use of flint-locks by soldiers of, 17
Buckland, the late Mr. Frank, 291
Buckman, Prof. J., manufactory of celts recorded by, 35
Buschan, Dr. G., on prehistoric spinning, 437
Buick, Dr., on Irish arrow-heads, 365, 370
"Bulb of percussion," 274
Bunyard, Mr. G., drift implements found by, 618
Burma and Assam, stone adzes in, 59
Burnishers of stone, 103, 139, 442
Burton, Dr. J. Hill, on elf-bolts, 366
Bushmen, arrows shafted by, with ostrich-bones, 410; ostrich-egg-shell fragments perforated by, 277; poisoned arrows of, 370
Bustards, flint arrow-heads abraded by gizzards of, 396
Butt end of celt, definition of, 66; roughened for insertion into socket, 128
Buttons, early use of, 452; of jet in interments, 453, 455, &c.; possible use of perforated discs as, 439
C
Cæsar, Julius, Gaulish use of iron in time of, 10
"Caillouteur," daily production of gun-flints by, 21
Cairns, stones thrown on, 282
Calc-spar, sling-stones of, 418
