Flaking tools, 24, 412; probable uses of, 413; dagger-hilts used as, 414
Flax, possible use of stone bats in preparing, 257; early use of, for weaving, 436
"Flensing-knife," Eskimo, 292; Shetland blades resembling, 347
"Flint Chips" referred to, 234
Flint Jack, arrow-heads made by, 42, 659
Flint-knapping, 17-22
Flint, alteration in structure of, 494, 489, 497, 498; ancient workshops of, 22, 606; as article of barter, 35, 80; brittle condition of, 558; cutting powers of, 281, 282; difficulty of perforating, 223, 224; durability of, 655; experiments in shaping, 36, 41; flakes and cores of, 20, 31, 272, 279; grinding of, 43; hardened by exposure, 18, 32, 33; importation of, 281; minute tools of, 325; modern ceremonial use of, 9; necessity of, in savage life, 282; ochreous, 536, 553, 597, 602; pits for extraction of, 33, 35, 78, 79; prismatic splitting of, 88; processes for grinding, 43; result of abundance of, in chalk districts, 677; scarcity of in Northern Britain, 580; softening of in red brick-earth, 596; and steel, early use of, 16, 271, 282; and steel, meaning of, in interments, 283; tools for working, 41; use of, with pyrites, 16, 313, 319; whitening of, 494, 498, 490, 545, 549, 596, 611, 619; whitening, cause of, 497; worn by use, 311, 312, 414, 416
Flints, accidentally fractured, M. Hardy on, 658; heaps of, on Palæolithic floor, 598
Flood deposits, varying nature of, 668, 669; their removal by subsequent floods, 670
Floods, their action in valley-erosion, 666, 706; as caused by ground-ice, 671
"Floor-stone," gun flints made from, 33
Flora, temperate, below brick-earth, 537; recent, in Oxford peat, 593; of various climates at Hoxne, 577, 697
Flower, the late Mr. J. W., on East Anglian flint implements, 551, 556; on section at Bromehill, 681; on French and English palæolithic implements, 650; on Drift-beds of the Fens, 681; on the Drift-beds of Brandon, 683
Fluting on arrow-heads, 392; on axe-hammer, 203; on Danish dagger-hilts, 42, 393; on Egyptian blades, 359; probably effected by pressure, 42, 393
Fluviatile origin of implementiferous beds, 688
Folklore Society referred to as to fairy darts, 365
"Food-vessels" in interments, 224, 462
Fooks, Mr. C. C. S., implement found by, 606
Forbes, the late Mr. David, Bolivian implements described by, 169, 232, 239
Forel, Dr. F. A., his experiment in stone-working, 36
"Forest Bed," Norfolk, suposed worked flints from, 572
Forest, submerged, at Bournemouth, 695
Forgeries of arrow-heads, 42; of Palæolithic implements, 658, 659
"Fort," cup found in, 444
Fossils, ascription of, to diabolical agency, 363; use of, as ornaments, 470, 657; in interments, 466, 469
Foster, Dr. C. Le Neve, drift implement found by, 610
Fox, Rev. W., as to origin of Solent Sea, 690
Fracture of flint, natural and artificial compared, 273
Fragments of implements, use of, 223, 242, 339
Frankish Cemeteries, objects found in, 283, 307
Frankland, Prof., on climatal conditions of glacier formation, 698
Franks, Sir A. Wollaston, on an abraded pyrites nodule, 318; on hafting of American flint blades, 349; on perforated discs, 439; on present use of stone vessels, 450
French, Mr. J., drift implements found by, 578
Frere, Mr. John, his discoveries at Hoxne, 573. 576
Friction, polish of stone saw by, 295
Frost, disintegrating effect of, 672
Fuegians, their arrow chipping, 39, 406; their use of arrow-heads as knives, 334; their mode of fire-producing, 15, 317; their mode of using scrapers, 299
Fungus, its use as tinder, 16, 317
Fustibalus, Roman use of the, 418
Future existence, belief in, implied by objects in interments, 84, 283
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Gabbro, tools for flint-working made of, 22
Gaillard, M. F., Breton finds of pyrites and flint by, 318
Gallas, form of scraper among the, 299
Games, possible use of stone balls in, 244, 245
Ganges, estimate of detritus carried by, 667
Gastaldi, Prof., on arrow-head superstitions, 367; engravings by, 120, 200, 333, 337
Gatty, Rev. Reginald A., on minute flint tools, 325
Gaudry, M., sections of San Isidro valley by, 529
Gaul, Celtic, importation of amber from, 449
Gaulish coins, stone hatchet found with, 144
Gautier de Bibelesworth quoted as to slick-stones, 441
Gaviller, Mr. G. H., oval implement found by, 584
Gay, the late Mr., 178
Geikie, Sir Archibald, on lowering of river-basins, 668; on chronology of valley erosion, 705, 706
Gems on hilt of Mexican chalcedony blade, 355
Geological data as to antiquity of man in Britain, 704, &c.
George, Mr. T., his find at Elton, 573
Georgius Agricola on thunderbolts, 64
Germany, superstitions in, regarding celts, 57, 58
Gesenius, his mention of stone knives in Palestine, 9
Gibb, Dr. G. D., drift implement found by, 617
Gibraltar, objects found in caves of, 177, 182, 252, 287, 428, 433
Gimawong, sacrificial use of stone in honour of, 10
Glacial deposit, celt found in gravel of, 136; deposit in Little Ouse valley, 682; Period, flint-bearing deposits subsequent to, 697; Period, attempt to date astronomically, 705; Periods, their relation to Palæolithic eriods, 568
Glaciers, heat action indicated by, 698
Gladstone, Dr. J. H., broad flake found by, 606
Glandes, the Roman sling-stones, 418
Glass beads in barrows, 437, 456; modern ceremonial use of flakes of, 9; "slickstones" of, 441, 442
Glossiness of surface of palæolithic implements, 659; to what cause due, 660
Glossopetra, Pliny's account of the, 363
Glovemakers, recent use of stone nodules by, 416
Godwin-Austen, Mr. R. A. C, his exploration of Kent's Cavern, 489; on gravels of Wey valley, 594; on origin of Bournemouth gravels, 694; on former temperature of English Channel, 701
Gneiss, hammers of, 221, 223, 224
Gnostic inscriptions, Egyptian celt bearing, 60, 61
Goat's horn, use of, by Mexicans in arrow making, 39
Gog and Magog, their military flail, 423
